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[quote=Anonymous]I posted, long ago, the sampling bias comment, but I take issue with the idea that the "ivy league professor" is lying. I went to an Ivy League school from a middling public, and what I experienced was that the public school students who ended up there were equal to the work and in many cases clearly better prepared than some private school students. That said they are not representative of the pool of all public school students, but my experience squares with what the professor said (including the sang froid part). In the end the courses you take in high school have only a little to do with getting in and doing well at a top college: internal motivation and drive matter so much more. If private school students were so much better prepared than public schools students, you would expect that schools like Yale and Harvard would be filling their classes with a greater percentage of them over time; in fact the trend has been going the opposite way. [/quote]
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