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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). [/quote] Definitionally it’s not 90% of kids. I mean really. [/quote]
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