UChicago is Tops at Top Prep Schools

marlowe1
Sat, 02 Jan 2021 02:35:35 +0000

One more thought and I am done…

Table 2 doesn’t address the tippy-top point. If that expression means anything at all with respect to academic excellence, it would be reflected in the stats for admits in the top decile as shown in Table 7. That table shows 952 white LDC admits comprised in the top decile, from a total of 4,175 of them in all deciles. Most of these LDC admits come from the middle categories. This does not even bring athletes into the equation. Overall, the ALDC admits comprise 43 percent of the total as shown in Table 10.

The point here is not specific to Harvard but to address the proposition that the kids at these private schools who go to the ivies are, as distinct from those who go to Chicago, mostly the academic superstars. It aint so.