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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Independent private schools (not the Mary O'Mary's Catholic/parochial school for girls and boys type that middle and lower middle class families send their kids to), comprise 40% of the student body at most Ivy League schools.

Where is the outrage in the name of equity?  Where are the protests?  The changemakers? Maybe there will be a sit-in at Harvard this admissions season, definitely at Brown.  Rise up, no equity, no peace...

Bueller...Bueller...[/quote]

Presumably the independent private schools are also enrolling with equity in mind, so can you say which kids from the private schools are matriculating to Ivies?[/quote]
+1 For example, all of the Big 3 privates in DC award financial aid to over 20% of their students, so presumably many of those students are included in the 40% OP refers to (but doesn't cite the source for the number). Given these colleges' current focus on FGLI and other institutional priorities, it's possible these students might even be overrepresented in the Ivy acceptances from privates. [/quote]

Do you think 20% of the students at insert-your-school-name-here come from families making less the $65k/yr for a family of four?

Really?

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I specifically cited the Big 3 in DC as an example. Google any of them and "financial aid." Do you think they're publicly lying? My kids are at one of these, and I was honestly surprised the percentage was that low. [/quote]

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