Boarding School special relationships with ivy leagues

Annldj
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:52:57 +0000

Regarding feeder schools to ivys, several year ago the IRS threaten to end Yale’s tax exempt status because it was admitting too many affluent, priviledged kids and not giving enough scholarships to middle class students from public schools who had been admitted but could not afford to go. This given that Yale is an extremely wealthy institution of learning. In other words, the kids from public school where just as qualified to go (and in most cases more qualified) but private school kids were shown a unfair bias. (think the Bush twins- the party girls of New Haven) The IRS noted that Yale was not following the tax exempt provision that it be a benefit to the community including making the University available to students. Yale now has a host of initiatives making a Yale education more accessable to more students. All the other ivys have followed suit so true “feeder schools” do not exist anymore. There are many more kids that go to Ivy’s from public schools then from private and, some would say, that in the past 10 years, attending a private school makes it less likely that you will be admitted to an Ivy.