<p>Thanks for sharing - very interesting, though perhaps slightly depressing for me 
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<p>Personally, the state of public schools here didn’t cause me to apply to more private schools/apply to less schools - I still applied to as many state schools as I would have otherwise, and I didn’t really apply to more private schools than I would have otherwise; however, what did change is that UCs are really, really far down on my list. I applied EDII to Swarthmore, but if I don’t get in, I certainly will consider the private schools to which I am accepted more seriously than the UCs to which I am accepted.</p>
<p>A shocking number of students at my school applied to no state schools at all, however - so case in point, I suppose!</p>