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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are going to see more and more reports like this, and school like the Big 3 are going to take college admissions hit as a result.  It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.  Slowly but surely, it will happen.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/08/07/georgetown-admissions-advantage-report[/quote]

What this article is missing is being full-pay. 
-- Wealthy kids can afford to apply early decision because they don't need to compare financial packages. Early decision admissions odds are almost always better.
-- Colleges love full-pay kids because they subsidize the scholarship kids.

I give being full-pay part of the credit for my completely unhooked kid getting accepted ED to a top 5 USNWR college. (From public school. And before you absolutely slate me or my kid, my kid also did have national-level achievement in something and really great stats. You need a ton of things to get into the top colleges, but being full-pay can absolutely one of those things.)[/quote]

Yeah I think OP is off.  Private school is on the upswing for colleges.  Just look at this year.   [/quote]

There are plenty of full-pay families in public school. Like us (kid did a few years of private school but not high school). I would think that, these days, being full-pay from somewhere like Blair or Wilson or TJ would give a better bump than being full-pay from a private school. [/quote]

Why would you think that?[/quote]

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