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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] None of this is fun. But I’d rather my child have an opportunity to go through an application and selection process prior to doing it for college. They will learn about themself and what’s important. [/quote] I think that’s very critical here. The high school application process is really a practice run for college. It starts the kid early in realizing he is deficient in ECs or mooching for letters. Ultimately unless you go to 1 or 2 specific high schools, where you go doesn’t matter that much compared to how you do in high school. I went to a K-12 private school and there’s a lot of complacency for the lifers and they get a rude awakening come college applications. The strongest performers were the ones who entered the K-12 at 9th grade. [/quote] Re: lifers, I think it's also fair to say it's objectively harder to get into these schools in 9th than in elementary school. Most kids who show up and do the work can get great grades in elementary school (and in the case of K admits, I think it's very hard to sus out true academic aptitude). Middle school is where grades actually start to mean something. [/quote] This isn’t totally true because many of the lifers for whom it’s a poor fit transfer out at 9th. The ones who stay tend to be kids who do quite well in the college lottery.[/quote]
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