Yes, that’s my point. It is not CHOATE that’s the reason those kids are going to Yale, it’s that the kids are legacies, or faculty kids. It’s very likely those same kids would be getting into Yale if they attended public school.
Highly selective schools are not wanting more prep school kids just because they attend a prep school. If your kid isn’t a legacy, or a recruited athlete, and you don’t work at an Ivy, you need to understand that your child’s odds of acceptance are extremely low, even though the prep school’s stats may make it seem otherwise.
Kind of like boarding schools with less rigorous academics and an emphasis on sports. You need to know going in that all those Ivy matriculations are 100% recruited athletes. And if your child isn’t a recruited athlete they have just about a zero chance of getting into an Ivy from that school.