Boarding School special relationships with ivy leagues

Periwinkle
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:34:09 +0000

SWHarborfan, I’d love to see the exact WSJ article you think you’re citing. The most recent WSJ article I can find online gives almost the opposite impression.



New York City private schools and New England prep schools continue to hold sway – Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., is a virtual factory, sending 19 kids to Harvard this fall – but these institutions are seeing some new competition from schools overseas and public schools that focus on math and science.

The 10 schools that performed best in our survey are all private schools. Two top performers overall are located in South Korea. Daewon Foreign Language High School in Seoul sent 14% of its graduating class to the eight colleges we examined – that’s more than four times the acceptance rate of the prestigious Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, N.Y.

[How to Get Into Harvard - WSJ.com](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119638146482608732.html)

The linked chart has many private schools, but few public schools.[WSJ.com[/url] Those public schools which make the list, with the exception of Princeton High School, seem to be exam schools, which are fine schools, but not open-enrollment public schools.



Well over 70+% of the accepted at the top colleges/universities came from public high schools.



class of 2013
Yale: 55% attended public schools and 45% attended independent, religious, or international schools. [url=Yale University - Wikipedia]Yale University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](WSJ.com)
Princeton: Fifty-eight percent of the accepted students attend public schools, while 29.5 percent attend private schools and 10 percent attend schools with religious affiliations. Eleven of the admitted students are home-schooled.[Admission rate rises to 9.79 percent for Class of 2013 - The Daily Princetonian](http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/01/23213/)
Dartmouth: public schools (60.4%)
private schools (34.2%)
parochial schools (5.4%)
[Class Profile](Home | Dartmouth Admissions)

There is also this WSJ article, from 2004: [WSJ.com - The Price of Admission](WSJ.com - The Price of Admission).

It states, though :

Public schools obviously offer the better bang for the buck – assuming you don’t count the high housing costs generally associated with better-performing districts. But in our survey, public schools were in the distinct minority, with the best-performing school sending fewer than a third of its graduates to our choice colleges. And a number of the better-performing public schools were small, highly selective “magnet” schools, meaning that students whose families live and pay taxes in the area don’t necessarily get to attend. For example, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Alexandria, Va., last year sent 10 graduates to Harvard alone.



11% of US k-12 students attend private schools (including parochial schools.) Private schools students as a whole do very well in selective college admissions.