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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree with the advice to apply to multiple safety (backup) schools, on top of 5 choice independents, unless your public option is a nonstarter. Once you get down into the back bench independent schools, they're not worth $40k and more to the point, not better academically than your local public. At that point, you're really just saying "hey! Private at any cost!" Which is understandable if your local high school is Dunbar. But sending a kid to Bullis over Walter Johnson (because gds, sta, sidwell and maret said "no") is questionable. [/quote] This. You should not apply to a school that you don't really want to send your kid to, unless public is just not an option for some reason. This isn't like applying to college, where if you don't get accepted, you don't go. We eliminated some private schools from our list after we toured the public and we couldn't see that the private was better, let alone $40K/year better. [/quote]
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