I think it is hard to deny that prep school kids reliably get into top universities disproportionately to kids from regular suburban high schools. I don’t think anything is going to change in that regard. But in some areas of the country, kids from suburban high schools certainly do send plenty of students to tippy top colleges. Our high school this past year sent kids to five different Ivy League’s, MIT, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Amherst, JHU, and many other excellent colleges. So did one of our rival high schools. It will be interesting to see if that holds true this year, becasue it is acknowledged in our district that for whatever reason, the Class of 2016 were pretty exceptional kids.
On a totally different note, I can update my D’s outcome, which other students might find useful. D ended up depositing at an excellent LAC with a sub-25% acceptance rate. She was then offered a spot off the WL at another excellent LAC, with merit aid. She declined, deciding that in fact, that college probably wasn’t for her. She was prepared mentally to attend College A when she was taken off yet another WL in the summer. College B is also an excllent school with a sub-25% acceptance rate and had always been a top choice. She chose to attend College B and is just about to finish up her first semester there. If anyone wants to see where she applied, please refer to the link in the initial post.