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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do private colleges are now accountable and private schools not? Are they sacred cows?. What is the legal basis to treat two private entities differently? Is it ok to be race neutral in college admissions and not neutral in school admissions ?

Troll if you want but it will say a lot if you don’t provide a logical argument. [/quote]

The legal basis is that they are private institutions. If they are not accepting any gov’t funds, so they are not bounded by the requirements often tied to those funds.

These schools have to comply with laws on student safety, discriminations, and most have to maintain certifications from independent bodies. However, they don’t have to comply with federal or state admissions disclosure requirements.[/quote]

So if there two school candidates with exactly the same academic performance, private schools have the right to chose exclusively on their racial preferences?

If I am a business owner and have the same situation and hire a white person because I like whites, I thought that would be illegal even though I do not receive federal funds.

So I am not sure that private schools have carte Blanche to do whatever they want in admissions. 
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There is a big distance between making admissions data publicly available and having having carte blanche to do whatever they want. Schools have to follow anti-discrimination laws, as does my employer, but they don’t owe the public this type of detailed information.[/quote]

You don’t have to disclose information of applicants but you could explain the reason for rejection. Is it done now ? Is there room for unfair decisions in this way ? Yes! [/quote]

They do explain reasons for rejections but people just don’t want to accept them. Reasons for not accepting your child:

1) we have more qualified applicants than openings, we could not accept everyone

2) your child was not a good fit based on a number of criteria including test scores, grades, teacher’s recommendations, essays, student interviews, extracurriculars, and overall impression of you and your child during your interactions with us.

With hundreds, if not, thousands of applicants, they can’t give detailed specific feedback to every rejected kid. Most parents on here think their kids walk on water and their children clearly exceed all of the above criteria. So when the children aren’t accepted, the parents are in denial and want to find excuses for their children’s rejections. 
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What you are describing is maybe the application process in another planet not in private schools in dc.

In dc the vast majority of children are not rejected but waitlisted and they tell you that your kid is great but unforntunately there were not enough spots.

But it is never clear the true reason and specially it is never disclosed that race and money place a big role in admissions. I see no reason to make hide the criteria for admissions, unless you want to prioritize money and race over other considerations. [/quote]

The reason these schools waitlist these kids instead of out right rejections is because the schools are being polite instead of just saying your kids didn’t make the cut. [/quote]

That’s fine. What’s not so fine is that they are trying to hide the criteria for the selection proxess. If the selection is done in a fair way, then what is the problem with sharing the criteria? Why is there a need to hide it ? [/quote]

You are not entitled to this information from a private school and they have chosen not to share it. If you don’t like the level of transparency in the admissions process for a given school you should not apply to that school. I really hope you don’t like my children’s’ school’s process because you sound impossible.[/quote]

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