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Which ones??[/quote]

Nearly all of them.[/quote]
Not much at the top. More diversity and emphasis on public schools.[/quote]

This seems to be true only of Swarthmore, which is 68 percent public school grads.  Can’t find Williams data, but Amherst and Pomona are over 40 percent from independent/parochial schools.[/quote]
Is 40% egregious now? That lines up for selecting some of the best students in the US.[/quote]

It's high considering only 10% of K-12 students in the US attend private schools. I think what you mean is "lines up for selecting some of the richest students in the US."
-private school parent.[/quote]

ERB subtests come with norms, and my kid with 99th percentile scores, by public standards, scored as low as 89th, by those of independent schools. 75th percentile kid was way down at 25th. The entire distribution is skewed to the right. [/quote]
THIS. And this is why top unis and top lacs take far deeper into the class from test-in privates: the top25% at these schools is like the top 5% of an above average public. 
The students who are 99+ overall and also 99th in every area compared to the independent school groups are pretty rare and they tend to have their pick among many ivy/plus/williams/amherst. The problem is when parents do not understand that their public-school-gifted kid (cutoff is usually hitting 95th%ile nationally in one area) would be just above average at the top private or the test in magnet high school. Heck they could be the bottom 1/3 of TJ. [/quote]

Also more nuanced than that. So many T20/T5SLAC focused on liberal arts education and writing…..
They know private school kids can write long cogent papers if necessary.

My kid at Ivy thinks it’s easier than high school….[/quote]

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