Athletes and legacies are more likely to be privately schooled. Private schoolers also tend to be less delusional about their abilities and thus are less likely to use their ED on a super reach like Brown unless they are very strong.

My private school child is at Dartmouth and says that most of the private school kids are legacies or athletes. She knows very few private school kids who aren't one or the other.

So this is a large part of why 50% of the kids at some of the Ivies are privately schooled. Because they fulfill these other institutional priorities:

50% private school: many/most of the athletes and legacies. All of the development ($$) and VIP kids.
50% public school: Questbridge kids, FGLI kids, a few athletes and legacies and then a fraction of spots left for middle/upper middle class public school kids

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Anonymous wrote:More surprising from that article is that they significantly decreased the number of QuestBridge acceptances from last year. I wonder if they’re aiming for a different percentage on FA (even if technically “need blind”) with the research funding troubles nowadays?

Its funding cuts for every T25. There will be less aid all around. They need (1) a lot more donors (even small 7 figure donors) and (2) a lot more full pay.

I imagine you’re right, it’s just the first time I’ve seen any stats pointing to this so far in the class of 2030 admissions cycle.