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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school kids are overrepresented at Ivy League and other top schools, relative to the overall student population.

But sure — keep up the myth.[/quote]

I believe you, but this happens in areas where the public schools just can't keep up. The DC area is not a normal metropolis. It is where overly-educated workers congregate, which makes the area public schools really competitive. So for this area, your general statement may not be true.[/quote]

Most of Harvard’s class comes from the Northeast, where public schools are arguably the strongest. Your argument simply doesn’t hold water against actual data.[/quote]

Right, but there are other Ivies than Harvard, and we're talking about a trend - that Ivies recruit LESS from private schools nowadays, compared to before.

I think this conversation is moot anyway, because the REAL problem is that admissions are becoming more and more unpredictable. Test-optional is a nightmare for admissions officers who now lack national standardized data to compare kids across regions and school systems with varying levels of grade inflation. The advantage of high-reputation privates lies in the fact they do not inflate grades, and are therefore "trusted" by colleges, but test-optional is still wreaking havoc on every single high school in the US, public and private. Hence why privately-hired counselors are now advising students to apply to more colleges than ever before - if the candidate is a regular white bread American without an unusual life story, it's a lottery and they have to apply widely.

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But the percentage of kids from private schools going to Ivies hasn’t changed. Unless you can show data that proves otherwise?[/quote]

Not me. I just have anecdotal, and therefore highly suspect, data from people I know living in my neighborhood. No Ivy admits from privates, some from public magnets, a few from regular public schools. Since I have a senior, I've been talking to private and public school parents, and the level of stress and general resentment against the system is sky-high in both.

So if you have the data and I don't, I'm not going to argue. But private school is very definitely not a magic ticket to anywhere. [/quote]

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