<p>Maybe more Harvard than MIT faculty kids tend to attend Milton? Of course it wouldn’t explain it all even if it’s true, but it could be one reason. Just browsed Milton’s online catalog. It feels like a great school. One thing I read from the prior posts is the “complaint” that Milton has a greater day student population, but the school’s size is large enough that there are still about 400 boarders, which is greater than the whole population of some smaller schools. Unlike some other top tier schools such as Deerfield and Andover though, Milton’s admission rate for 2009 actually went up from 25% (Peterson’s) to 28% (Milton catalog). Not sure why.</p>