Do Top-Tier Admission Officers Prefer Private or Public School Students?

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@BKSquared

If you really want to play a gross odds of admissions game in comparing your local public HS vs a private school(s) you are considering, ask for admissions data for the past 5 years for each school and see on average (median) how many graduating seniors each year get admitted into a T20 (a kid who gets into multiple T20’s only counts as 1). So if the Pub S school number is 5 out of a class of 400 and the private is 20 out of 50, do you think you will more likely be a top 5 student in the Pub S or a top 20 in the private.

Be sure to adjust for hooks though. For example, if you aren’t hooked, you really want to know how many unhooked students get in. That applies for public high schools as well. There are certain towns near Boston where a surprisingly large number of students from public high schools get into Harvard. Many are children of faculty or alumni.