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Anonymous wrote:I actually think MIT and Princeton currently favor private schools the least, looking at cds for percent from private schools and percent full pay. It may be, however, that many of these schools have a preference for lower income or rural public schools, and there are less of those in this area.

This is what I've thought too. I don't see multiple Princeton/MIT admits on the elite boarding school instagrams (from the early round). Usually 1, but multiple from Harvard and others. Also, there is no Princeton and just 1 MIT on the harvard westlake instagram but 3+ harvard, penn, etc. (early round). Princeton took a couple from our public this year, which means less from the privates in our area. Colleges tend to lump al the schools in our region together, private and public.

Anonymous wrote:I think it changes year over year. Dartmouth even 2 years ago drastically favored private school kids. The last 2 years have been a bit different. I'm sure it will switch again and/or the results look like a pattern but are actually just random based on the kids themselves.

Bigger question: WHY does this matter? Is your kid going to choose an SCEA/ED school based on fit or based on admissions odds? The whole "ivy or bust" thing is so obnoxious.

Anonymous wrote:DP, from my observations, Yale belongs in the “public school students have a shot” category. On the other hand Chicago takes almost exclusively private school kids (they’ll stoop to Catholic schools for recruited athletes).