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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am from the Bay Area and what I can tell you from my experience is that the 5-10% top students at both the excellent (e.g. Gunn and the like) and the high quality independent privates do very well.  Most, though not all will be accepted to a T20, assuming that is what they are trying for and that they have the EC's and character to match their GPA and scores. 
[b]The difference I have observed is where the next 10% of the class is accepted.  In the case of my DC's private school those students got into Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt  and Georgetown (none were legacies).  That was not the experience of the kids from the public high school[/b]- [/quote]

This is it. If you are top 5% in public or top 5-10% in private, same outcomes - most likely.
If you are top 20-40% (depending on how "feeder" the private is), you'll have T20 outcomes. Just have to be at the "right" private school. They aren't all equal.[/quote]

I don’t even think this is correct.  Very few publics send the top few unhooked kids to a H/Y/P year after year.  The top privates schools do.[/quote]

I agree that top privates send more kids to H/Y/P - my guess is that a fair number of these students are hooked though (legacy, URM, development cases, recruited athletes).  However, if you compare an unhooked kid who is ranked 15 at top private school vs. an unhooked kid who is number 1 at a top public school, I think the results will be the same, or tilted in favor of the top public school kid for HYPSM.  H and P love their legacies, but MIT has higher percentage of kids coming from public schools and does not give legacy preference.[/quote]

Our private does very well at MIT, in Baltimore.  [/quote]

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