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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school parent here who calls BS on whoever is telling you that your public school child has some unfair advantage. Every Ivy uses a regional admissions officer who knows all of the public and private schools in the area. So they know that a public school student with straight As who takes every AP offered may have a 4.8 GPA and that no local private school student does because privates don't weight for honors/AP classes. They will look closely at your child's course selection in the context of what's available at his/her school, not comparing them to the courses available at a magnet like TJHSST or a Big 3. And they'll know if the starting a club/EC is a big deal that requires lots of leadership and hoop-jumping or a whim.  As PP said, they are focusing on the individual and how they excelled in context.  [/quote]

This is so true!  Unfortunately, if your public school kid has a 4.5 GPA, it means very little in terms of admission to an Vvy because a high proportion of his classmates are doing the same thing.  A kid with a 4.5 GPA in my son's private, however, will most certainly have a VERY strong chance of admission to an Ivy because he took every possible opportunity for an AP course and excelled at them.  He is probably in the to 5% of the class.   And his A grade honors classes were not given the same weighting as the pubic school (4.5 vs. 5).  The regional admissions officer knows all of this.  I chuckle all the time when my public school friend brags about her kid with the 4.5 GPA (mine only has a 4.2, but he worked just as hard, if not harder than the public school kid).

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