If Public Schools Fail, Why Do Prestigious Universities Admit Their Students?
Whenever you hear about public schools today people use the word failure, others go so far as to call them dropout factories. So if they are so bad, if we really have such a crisis, why are some of our most prestigious universities still admitting the majority of their students from public schools?
Corporate reform enthusiasts are re-structuring preschool to graduation, making school harder than ever before, and they are basing all of their ideas on this mistaken notion that our public schools are failing. But they were not failing at all.
I was inspired to look into this after reading this beautiful article by Michael Winerip about interviewing high school senior candidates to get into Harvard. HERE. I don’t know if those he interviewed were from public schools, but I think it demonstrates how bright our students are today and they are college-ready. The article also does a nice job of putting college in perspective. It is a great read and I highly recommend it.
Let’s look at the future classes of 2018.
Princeton University: 26,641 Applicants; 1,939 Admissions; 61% are from Public Schools.
Brown University: 30,432 Applied; 2,619 Admitted; 63% are from Public Schools; 37% are from Private or Parochial Schools.
Stanford University: 42,167 Applied; 2,145 Admitted; 60% are from Public Schools; 30% Private Schools; 10% International.
Vanderbilt University (Class of 2017) 31,099 Applied; 3,963 Admitted; 64% are from Public Schools; 36% are from Private Schools; < 1% Other.
California Institute of Technology: 6,525 Applied; 226 Admitted; 75% are from Public Schools.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 18,356 Applied; 1,447 Admitted; 69% are from Public Schools; 14% are from Independent Schools; 7% are from Religious If Public Schools Fail, Why Do Prestigious Universities Admit Their Students?:
