Anonymous wrote:Legacy admissions is affirmative action for white people.

http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/08/05/white-people-dont-talk-about-legacy-admissions-because-its-the-affirmative-action-that-helps-them/

Anonymous wrote:Why are the so-called "Episcopal" schools so expensive? Why can't they replicate the costs of diocesan Catholic schools that are affordable to many middle-class families or like Don Bosco Cristo Rey high school that is able to serve working class and poor families? Or do they exist just to perpetuate the hegemony of the WASP elite?

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You first. How many kids from the Barrie School, St Andrews or Sandy Spring go to Ivies? Statistics, please.

Stop already with the ridiculous comparisons between STA and Choate vs. all publics. You picked the two most competitive privates, which is intellectually dishonest. The statistics OP cites are about college acceptances from ALL privates, so you need to look at results from ALL privates.

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

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I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

You laughed at, and ignored, the explanation about how many public school kids don't qualify for FA and the Ivies don't give financial aid. So they end up going to non-Ivies that give generous aid packages.

That's an awesome win for them, but apparently for you it doesn't count because their parents couldn't afford full-pay at an Ivy. At Blair just a few years ago, Columbia alone accepted 14 kids but only 6 went (including my full-pay kid). The rest took large or full scholarships at historically black colleges, Georgetown, and elsewhere.

Maybe you're not too dumb to understand that you shouldn't compare apples and oranges. Maybe you're just a snob living in a financial bubble and you have no clue that not everybody can afford $70k for an ivy.

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The acceptance rate at elite schools is between 5-10% the acceptance rate at TJ is between 5-10%. Therefore there is no benefit for TJ

Even worst TJ supposedly takes the best of the best. You mean to tell me in Fairfax County and surrounding area(s) with over 1 million people. The best of the best are still only getting acceptance rates that are the average lol. PATHETIC

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I don't know about the other elites but I know Harvard gives full financial aid to middle class incomes. So your argument fails. try again

Anonymous wrote:That's OK - most of the people here have never cared about a high school football program

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

You laughed at, and ignored, the explanation about how many public school kids don't qualify for FA and the Ivies don't give financial aid. So they end up going to non-Ivies that give generous aid packages.

That's an awesome win for them, but apparently for you it doesn't count because their parents couldn't afford full-pay at an Ivy. At Blair just a few years ago, Columbia alone accepted 14 kids but only 6 went (including my full-pay kid). The rest took large or full scholarships at historically black colleges, Georgetown, and elsewhere.

Maybe you're not too dumb to understand that you shouldn't compare apples and oranges. Maybe you're just a snob living in a financial bubble and you have no clue that not everybody can afford $70k for an ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.