Does attending Prep School help with college admissions?

Momofthree24
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:02:13 +0000

Momtofourkids:

Yes - looking at stats approximately 40% of the students who attend Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, Brown and a few others have attended boarding school. So while “colleges admit students, not schools” These top schools certainly skew it a bit! Data taken from a WSJ article from 2023 so I feel comfortable with the stats.

Without reading the article myself, I find this data hard to believe. This, from the Princeton admissions page, says 8 percent attended boarding school.