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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If in the top 10% of the class, yes, they will be in good shape.  After that, no, I don't think it confers much advantage these days.  [/quote]

I agree with this.  The problem being that it's really not easy to be in the top 10%.  Pretty much everyone at a big3 for high school is very smart.  Being in the top 10% is reserved for kids who study non-stop at the expense of almost everything else.  
I'm beginning to realize that college admissions-wise my kids my kids would have been better off or just as good in public.  They're well rounded kids--they work hard and do well in school, they play travel sports, they volunteer, they have active social lives---
but they're not going to be in the top 10%.  That is reserved for the kids who are compulsive about school (more power to them but it's not most kids).  
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Nah.  Senior class at our public VA HS has 950 students (close to 3,000 total).

There are almost non-existent Ivy League acceptances and maybe 15-20 UVA —out of 950 kids.  These are the full IB program kids with a gazillion AP credits and well over a 4.5-4.6 gpa.

Also, counselors are over-worked, deal with way too many students and don’t have any connection to admission offices.

Kids with 4.0, multiple activities are struggling to get into Tech and JMU these days due to the quotas per Fairfax and Arlington HS.

It’s not what you think it is.  The stress levels and anxiety are through the roof and the competition insane.

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