Wealthy parents are apparently ditching prep schools for public institutions, according to a report published Thursday.
The offspring of New York City’s rich and famous are apparently going to be sent to public school so they have a better chance of getting into Ivy League colleges, according to the New York Post. College admissions consultant Christopher Rim told the outlet that many high-ranking colleges are turning away students from places like Trinity, Dalton, and Horace Mann, and are more likely to give spaces to publicly educated students.
A public school kid has a four-to-five times better shot at going Ivy than the preppy kids. Apparently this is because the nation’s top-ranking institutions put a cap on how many rich kids they’ll accept.
“Of course, there are tremendous benefits to going to these private schools, but the college admissions competition is pretty much your entire graduating class,” Rim told the outlet. “If you have a specific highly selective college you want to go to, you will be competing against dozens and dozens of classmates who are all vying for that same spot.”
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And these rich kids aren’t supposed to go to good public schools. Apparently they need to go to the second-tier public institutions, excel at their studies, and then they’ll probably get into the Ivy League. Why? Because we live in a ridiculous world where we teach our children that their demographic is more important than their ability to be good at anything …. wtf? (RELATED: BYU Could Lose Accreditation Over Transgender Issue)
Now that pay-for-play acceptance schemes at most Ivy League schools have fallen apart due to a very high-profile scandal some years ago, the public school fake-out approach could become the new norm … a brand new shiny way to normalize discrimination and labeling for our kids. Well done, everyone.