Does attending Prep School help with college admissions?

NiceUnparticularMan
Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:10:40 +0000

Thorsmom66:

They are going to very good schools that are a notch down (USNWR 30-50) or SLACs.

Of course any “help” with admissions to those colleges is no small thing!

Just because it was recently posted . . . apparently 43% of Wesleyan’s enrollees this year went to privates. As I recall, around 10% of US high school students attend privates. And I suspect if you broke out secular/independent privates, the difference would be even higher.

I think there is definitely a lot of self-selection going on there. Indeed, it would make sense that families that chose secular privates for high school would be more likely to choose secular privates for college.

Still, if nothing else I do think many secular privates do a relatively good job helping their students identify great fits among colleges like Wesleyan. And probably at least often provide a lot of opportunities for students to show why they would be good fits for those colleges.

OOS publics might not be quite as strong an effect, but I suspect it still exists.