If one defines "success" as rich private school kids going to rich private college then yes I guess private schools have had more "success"

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Anonymous wrote:Yes my kids' private they graduated from within the last few years seem to be doing better this year than when they were there.

Why do you think that is?

Clearly, they are not admitting necessarily stronger students all around.

Is it really the Supreme Court decision? So the beneficiaries of that decision are private school white and Asian kids?

Yes......will be interesting if national press examines all of the IG for national private schools and is able to glean something here....

My kid is a Senior at a DC private and less than 1/2 the class chose to post on IG. You are missing more than 50% of the class. A lot of kids are turning away from SM lately. Thank god.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes my kids' private they graduated from within the last few years seem to be doing better this year than when they were there.

Why do you think that is?

Clearly, they are not admitting necessarily stronger students all around.

Is it really the Supreme Court decision? So the beneficiaries of that decision are private school white and Asian kids?

Yes......will be interesting if national press examines all of the IG for national private schools and is able to glean something here....

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Anonymous wrote:Of course there should be more NM Scholars from a private school that requires a rigorous application than a public school. That's expected. Public schools have a huge range of kids so maybe not accurate to compare the two? But also accept that the kids at the top at a public school can do just as well as the private school kids? Private school kids (not all) also have more resources and wealth to help with the admissions process.

The Ivy admits I know this year are pretty evenly split between private and public schools.

Not my experience this year.
Public school kids getting into large OOS flagships at higher rate than private (UCLA/UCB/Michigan/Texas/UVA)….

Definitely larger number of ivies per capita at private.

Also, it's where they are applying. My son got into UVA from private, but didn't apply to a single large OOS flagship, or any other OOS public.

Tons of large OOS acceptances at our private--many going there.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course there should be more NM Scholars from a private school that requires a rigorous application than a public school. That's expected. Public schools have a huge range of kids so maybe not accurate to compare the two? But also accept that the kids at the top at a public school can do just as well as the private school kids? Private school kids (not all) also have more resources and wealth to help with the admissions process.

The Ivy admits I know this year are pretty evenly split between private and public schools.

Not my experience this year.
Public school kids getting into large OOS flagships at higher rate than private (UCLA/UCB/Michigan/Texas/UVA)….

Definitely larger number of ivies per capita at private.

Also, it's where they are applying. My son got into UVA from private, but didn't apply to a single large OOS flagship, or any other OOS public.

Anonymous wrote:Yes my kids' private they graduated from within the last few years seem to be doing better this year than when they were there.

Why do you think that is?

Clearly, they are not admitting necessarily stronger students all around.

Is it really the Supreme Court decision? So the beneficiaries of that decision are private school white and Asian kids?

Yes my kids' private they graduated from within the last few years seem to be doing better this year than when they were there.

I think the phenomenon this year post-SC case has helped many AOs justify admitting private school kids in larger numbers than in previous years.

Are ANY private schools having a quantifiably bad year (less Ivy admits than last few years, less T20 admits)?

"change" should be "chance" above, sorry.

No one has the numbers other than the schools themselves, but I do think the people who apply ED are higher and higher each year as a % of the senior class.

Also consider that stock market near all-time highs, mortgages locked in at 3%, so maybe more parents have the $ to not worry about as much aid and go ED where there is less change for aid visibility.

And yes, the schools as we are seeing are swing back to norms like re-instituting test scores. I think the underlying message is that the "old way" of pre-Covid admissions is regaining traction vs the new way of test optional and more varied sources for students.

I think those items could explain some of what you are seeing. But just an opinion.

Anonymous wrote:At one private our student previously attended and two others we know well, the college counselors pushed as many kids as they possibly could to apply ED. It clearly helps, especially with private universities like Wash U, Emory, Tufts, BC, Tulane, Miami, Vanderbilt, you name it.

Then consider that there is a higher % of legacies at the private high schools. Colleges take the higher percentage shot, these kids, versus an unknown from a mass of 300 kids in our high school's senior class who all have APs, a 3.8 or higher GPA and may be at a grade-inflated school.

But don’t they (counselors) do this every year?

The point is this year the outcomes are so much better than in past years. Are you saying this year even more kids applied early decision than normal?

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Anonymous wrote:LA private, graduating class this year was very strong placement-wise.

+1
Our private did very well at colleges and universities where they typically have not historically sent many students, including certain Ivies.

It’s almost as if colleges got rid of their feeder high schools, but looked for other private schools to get a new batch of students from.

Same

At one private our student previously attended and two others we know well, the college counselors pushed as many kids as they possibly could to apply ED. It clearly helps, especially with private universities like Wash U, Emory, Tufts, BC, Tulane, Miami, Vanderbilt, you name it.

Then consider that there is a higher % of legacies at the private high schools. Colleges take the higher percentage shot, these kids, versus an unknown from a mass of 300 kids in our high school's senior class who all have APs, a 3.8 or higher GPA and may be at a grade-inflated school.

Anonymous wrote:Of course there should be more NM Scholars from a private school that requires a rigorous application than a public school. That's expected. Public schools have a huge range of kids so maybe not accurate to compare the two? But also accept that the kids at the top at a public school can do just as well as the private school kids? Private school kids (not all) also have more resources and wealth to help with the admissions process.

The Ivy admits I know this year are pretty evenly split between private and public schools.

Not my experience this year.
Public school kids getting into large OOS flagships at higher rate than private (UCLA/UCB/Michigan/Texas/UVA)….

Definitely larger number of ivies per capita at private.

Of course there should be more NM Scholars from a private school that requires a rigorous application than a public school. That's expected. Public schools have a huge range of kids so maybe not accurate to compare the two? But also accept that the kids at the top at a public school can do just as well as the private school kids? Private school kids (not all) also have more resources and wealth to help with the admissions process.

The Ivy admits I know this year are pretty evenly split between private and public schools.