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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We really shouldn't turn this into a public vs. private debate because in 2023 the odds aren't great from either side (at least in ED).

The DMV is packed with 1)legacies, 2)extreme wealth 3)URMs 4)athletes. 
So the kids taken from the DMV are going to almost all be from these categories because there are plenty of kids who are [b]super smart [/b]and who satisfy 1 (and usually 2, 3 or 4) of these institutional needs. 
Kids from Vermont (which has almost zero URMs and far fewer legacies per capita and probably very, very few big donor legacies) are far more likely to be just white and unhooked.

The current reality is the same in every educated urban area. [/quote]

And that’s been the reality for an extremely long time.[/quote]

yes but a few things have changed which have exacerbated this to it's current extreme state. 
A major one being test optional policies and grade inflation (Covid related and baseline) which have greatly enlarged the pool of "super smart" kids.  Now the pool from which a college can pick their hooked applicants is MUCH larger.

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That logic doesn’t follow, and again — the percentage of private school kids that make up Ivy League entering classes hasn’t changed.[/quote]

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