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<p>As I’ve posted before, that entitlement index is really misleading.</p>
<p>First, not every kid that goes to private high school is well off. (The affluent private high schools hand out a lot of scholarship money and those scholarship kids, if they’ve done well, are highly sought after by the selective colleges.)</p>
<p>Also, a lot of the private schools aren’t close to wealthy to begin with. Colleges do a lot of diversity recruiting in the urban parochial schools and I would think they show up as private schools. And finally, there’s lots of very well off public high school students in the applicant pool of expensive private schools. I’d guess more of those than actual boarding school students. </p>
<p>Looking at that index, I had to laugh at the identity of some of the schools that according to the index are significantly less entitled than the traditional top tier LACs. Schools that I know from first hand experience have rip roaring, beer drinking, fraternity dominated, who’s got the nicer car and clothes, be there or you’re square social scenes that are the only thing to do on Saturday night.</p>
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<p>Anybody who thinks Vassar or Barnard are “preppy” under any conceivable definition of the term hasn’t been there.</p>