<p>collegealum314,</p>
<p>I guess you never heard of places like Breck or Blake in Minneapolis, Chicago Latin School, Greenhill in Dallas, and quite a few of their brethren around the country? </p>
<p>You obviously don’t understand that there are three seasons for sports, most kids in the school play on a team and so forth. </p>
<p>Never mind, though. I was just using one example of how the scales are tilted. You don’t have to believe it. You can go on believing that Ivies take 40+ percent of their students from private schools like Exeter because those students are academically superior. </p>
<p>But here’s spme data to chew on. from 2007 to 2009, Philips Exeter sent an average of 76 kids per year to ivies, while having about 22 NM finalists per year. My D’s HS averaged more NM finalists per year (even being in MA, which has the highest cutoff in the country. Prep schools use permanent residence address if I recall, so an even comparison would have a public school with several times as many NM finalists). Yet this public school only sent about 30 kids to ivies. </p>
<p>I can anticipate your response yada yada, but the facts speak for themselves.</p>