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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Duplicate:  I have had more than one college admission counselor tell me straight "I throw the private school admission's application to the bottom of the pile. We all know a suburban public school with 500 or more students in a class, does not hold their kids' hands. The kids at the top are motivated to do the work, don't waste professors time, and put 100% of their effort in class. Private school kids on the other hand, whine that professors are too mean or pile on too much work, or have mommy/daddy call the dean's office."[/quote]

The numbers absolutely do not support this. Private schools students are overrepresented as a percentage of the student body at the elite universities. 8.5% of hs students attend a private school, whereas 37, 40, 41, and 44% of students at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth attended private high schools. [/quote]

Ok, but there is a long list of confounding variables that may impact that overrepresentation: socioeconomic status, geography, parent education and most important of all legacy. It’s very telling that among these top institutions, MIT doesn’t consider legacy and has one of the lowest proportion of private high school students among ‘elite’ universities.

If you’re not a legacy kid, attending a private with a bunch of legacies is actually bad news because you’d be competing with those overrepresented kids that are likely to receive a boost on the same HYPS spots.[/quote]

I was responding to the pp’s ridiculous statement that private school applications are moved to the bottom of the pile. They are quite obviously not. The personal bias one admissions officer supposedly communicated against private schools is not enough to overcome the many additional factors considered in admissions.  [/quote]

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