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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]37% of Harvard’s Class of 2025 went to private school. 20% were legacies. I don’t believe every legacy went to private school, which means at the very least 17% of the class was non-legacy private — though it’s almost certainly more.

Only 10% of US seniors go to private school.

The reality is that private schools continue to overrepresent at these schools and it’s not just legacies/hooked kids.

https://features.thecrimson.com/2021/freshman-survey/makeup-narrative/[/quote]

This does not disprove OP's and PP's point. "Private" is not a proxy for unhooked stats kids of course. Private schools recruit/admit URMs and athletes with similar fervor as the colleges.[/quote]

So are you positing that all or most of the private school kids getting in are hooked, at a higher rate than public school kids? [/quote]

No. No one has said that there are zero unhooked private school kids getting into ivies. But the continued overrepresentation of privates at ivies is being used by some posters to prove that little or nothing has changed. So, what I'm positing is the point that has also been made upthread: top privates have already been recruiting/admitting hooked candidates at 9th (and even 7th in my experience) and it's at least in part to adjust to the new reality in college admissions. [/quote]

Just to make a connection — maybe the reason Big3 numbers are down on the presidential scholars eligibility list, and Walls numbers are up, is that the Big3 have been admitting fewer high-scoring 9th graders. And WIS is less affected, because it admits very few students in 9th grade. [/quote]

No, the current seniors at both schools were admitted using admissions tests.  It will get interesting beginning with the class of 2025 when both Walls and the privates tossed the admissions tests.  Some privates reinstated testing last year (NCS), developed their own test last year (Sidwell), a few more reinstated it this year (STA) and and others still aren't using any test (GDS, Maret and Walls)[/quote]

Oh, yes, I understand that about the timing. I meant, maybe in deciding who to admit, the privates have been putting less weight on high test scores, even while they were still using the tests. [/quote]

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