Anonymous
08/22/2024 10:56
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is all super helpful.
The more I read, think and crunch the data/fees, I am inclined not to have my child apply / enroll at large public Flagships. For the out-of-state tuition prices, I just don’t think it’s worth it - with the limited amount of undergrad focused resources. The value isn’t there for me.
If you think your kid needs a bit more handholding, undergrad resources, student-centric staff, administration, and programming, are the schools listed above the ones we should be focusing on? Are there any others? How do we figure out the “spend” per undergraduate student?
Profile: private school senior girl, full pay, non-DMV. Humanities major, top GPA stats/rigor + high test scores. Looking for social, friendly schools with attention from faculty.
Any and all advice appreciated.
I think you're asking two separate things. Your first question was schools that take a disproportionate number of students from private high schools. Your second question was schools that offer more support/hand holding/advising. The schools in both those lists might overlap, but it isn't the same thing.
I could be wrong but I’d assume schools with larger % of private HS kids would offer more of these handholding, robust freshman/undergrad focused services? That these types of students would gravitate towards these schools?
Is that wrong?
Anonymous
08/22/2024 10:53
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:This is all super helpful.
The more I read, think and crunch the data/fees, I am inclined not to have my child apply / enroll at large public Flagships. For the out-of-state tuition prices, I just don’t think it’s worth it - with the limited amount of undergrad focused resources. The value isn’t there for me.
If you think your kid needs a bit more handholding, undergrad resources, student-centric staff, administration, and programming, are the schools listed above the ones we should be focusing on? Are there any others? How do we figure out the “spend” per undergraduate student?
Profile: private school senior girl, full pay, non-DMV. Humanities major, top GPA stats/rigor + high test scores. Looking for social, friendly schools with attention from faculty.
Any and all advice appreciated.
I think you're asking two separate things. Your first question was schools that take a disproportionate number of students from private high schools. Your second question was schools that offer more support/hand holding/advising. The schools in both those lists might overlap, but it isn't the same thing.
Anonymous
08/22/2024 10:48
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
This is all super helpful.
The more I read, think and crunch the data/fees, I am inclined not to have my child apply / enroll at large public Flagships. For the out-of-state tuition prices, I just don’t think it’s worth it - with the limited amount of undergrad focused resources. The value isn’t there for me.
If you think your kid needs a bit more handholding, undergrad resources, student-centric staff, administration, and programming, are the schools listed above the ones we should be focusing on? Are there any others? How do we figure out the “spend” per undergraduate student?
Profile: private school senior girl, full pay, non-DMV. Humanities major, top GPA stats/rigor + high test scores. Looking for social, friendly schools with attention from faculty.
Any and all advice appreciated.
The more I read, think and crunch the data/fees, I am inclined not to have my child apply / enroll at large public Flagships. For the out-of-state tuition prices, I just don’t think it’s worth it - with the limited amount of undergrad focused resources. The value isn’t there for me.
If you think your kid needs a bit more handholding, undergrad resources, student-centric staff, administration, and programming, are the schools listed above the ones we should be focusing on? Are there any others? How do we figure out the “spend” per undergraduate student?
Profile: private school senior girl, full pay, non-DMV. Humanities major, top GPA stats/rigor + high test scores. Looking for social, friendly schools with attention from faculty.
Any and all advice appreciated.
Anonymous
08/22/2024 00:23
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:Schools like:
Brown
Dartmouth
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
U-Miami
BC
NYU
Midd
Colgate
Wake
SMU
W&L
Bucknell
Any of these schools really appreciate full pay?
What about wasian/biracial kids - do any of these schools need those kids/count them as diverse?
Anonymous
08/21/2024 20:41
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:Schools like:
Brown
Dartmouth
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
U-Miami
BC
NYU
Midd
Colgate
Wake
SMU
W&L
Bucknell
+2 I would add Tulane to this list.
Anonymous
08/21/2024 20:27
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Schools like:
Brown
Dartmouth
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
U-Miami
BC
NYU
Midd
Colgate
Wake
SMU
W&L
Bucknell
Brown
Dartmouth
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
U-Miami
BC
NYU
Midd
Colgate
Wake
SMU
W&L
Bucknell
Anonymous
08/21/2024 20:17
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:I’m also looking for a college for a very high stats/competitive kid with a bit more hand-holding/involvement.
Less sink-or-swim and more like a larger sophisticated jump up from private school (searching for this for a variety of personal reasons given my kid’s distinct personal issues).
Suggestions?
SLACs
Smaller private universities (sub 8k) students
Look for schools like Vanderbilt or Rice or Emory
Anonymous
08/21/2024 19:23
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:Where do you find the data on this?
Google.
Anonymous
08/21/2024 15:39
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:some slacs are known to take the dummies from the boarding schools - the C student at Choate needs to get in somewhere after spending all that $
My school loved Tufts. We were not getting their best and their brightest
Williams right?
Anonymous
08/21/2024 15:36
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:Taft
Boarding school?
Anonymous
08/21/2024 15:16
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Where do you find the data on this?
Anonymous
08/21/2024 15:07
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Taft
Anonymous
08/21/2024 15:07
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:some slacs are known to take the dummies from the boarding schools - the C student at Choate needs to get in somewhere after spending all that $
My school loved Tufts. We were not getting their best and their brightest
Anonymous
08/21/2024 14:59
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
some slacs are known to take the dummies from the boarding schools - the C student at Choate needs to get in somewhere after spending all that $
Anonymous
08/21/2024 14:39
Subject: Largest percentage of private HS kids
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Slacs
Which ones??
Nearly all of them.
Not much at the top. More diversity and emphasis on public schools.
This seems to be true only of Swarthmore, which is 68 percent public school grads. Can’t find Williams data, but Amherst and Pomona are over 40 percent from independent/parochial schools.
Is 40% egregious now? That lines up for selecting some of the best students in the US.
It's high considering only 10% of K-12 students in the US attend private schools. I think what you mean is "lines up for selecting some of the richest students in the US."
-private school parent.