We have information on only a small, carefully curated slice of their experience, which makes it more challenging to identify the factors that affected their admissions records, but I will note a key distinctive between elite privates and public universities, even selective flagships: at publics, admissions criteria are generally set by the state board of higher ed, and thus more transparent and somewhat more objective. And open to public records requests. I suspect that, in consequence, soft criteria (like social skills and extracurriculars) become less of a factor.

And that the author's younger children are not taking identical pathways suggests that the twins' homeschooling experience was significantly driven by them, and not imposed on them (with, perhaps, the exception of Spanish--although even then, they appear to have taken to it rather quickly).


...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...