<p>Is it true that UGA denies more kids from private schools than public schools because they want to accept more " less privileged" students?</p>
<p>How can that even be proven? There has actually been some controversy over the fact that UGA has been apparently admitting more privileged students than normal (some AJC article). Besides, that is not necessarily a measure of the wealth of applicants. Even we have more public school students than private enrolled. It’s more fair to look at who was admitted than denied. Even at higher ranked schools, public school students dominate. This cannot be explained by mere attempts to foster diversity. And besides, perhaps private school students are held to a higher standard (as in their school may be more competitive, so if the student was not competitive vs. their peers at the school, then the adcom may take note). Also, many of the public school students may actually be from good school districts (like some in the Gwinnett county area). Many public school students here, for example, come from some of the best public school systems in their region (which are also in wealthy areas by the way).There are also tricks that adcoms play now-a-days to ensure a decent yield (matriculation rate). Thus, they could also deny/waitless more high-performing private school students because they fear them matriculating at a higher ranked institution. Again, even a game that higher-ranked schools play. Ours even does it I would imagine.</p>
<p>Awhile back, I submitted a massive open-records request on UGA admissions to see if there were any class, race, location, etc. advantages. While I didn’t know the statistical methods I know now, I didn’t see much of an advantage for any group other than rural students, which UGA I believe explicitly admits to in the interest of getting a geographically representative student body. I’ll look to see if I still have any of the files, but all these rumors about UGA favoring this and that group seem to be on the whole to be unsupported by the evidence, including private school students.</p>
<p>I went to a private school. Our senior class had 101 students. About 10 of us are going to UGA.</p>
<p>Well, I guess that’s one sample. This indicates that around 10% of her whole school at least had to be admitted (b/c about 10 are going, so I would guess more were admitted).</p>
<p>wat school?</p>
<p>A few years ago, it seemed that about 10 percent of students from Metro Atlanta’s top schools (pubilc and private) were being admitted. UGA consistently holds that there are no quotas, but realistically they could easily fill their class from a handful of large, high performing public high schools in the metro area. (Methodology for this was very unscientific, a large group of moms got together one night and hobbled together a list of high schoosl and UGA admissions.)</p>
<p>Some headmasters like to claim that UGA doesn’t admit as many private school students, but I think that there really isn’t much truth to that. If UGA is my goal for my child and I am in the metro area, I would make sure that my private school offers an adequate number of AP/IB courses and that my child takes them.</p>