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[quote=Anonymous]1) No school will ever tell you these things.
2) If compelled to ask, only do so after being admitted because this is a path to rejection.
3) You have no idea how your child would have fared in public - there are very strong students in many of them.
4) I 100% empathize with the excessive work and pressure at some DMV private schools
5) Along side (4) empathize with dealing with teachers who can be harsh/stingy for no good reason. (This is not saying everyone should get an A, but that it's crazy to say almost nobody will get an A)

6) Finally - Your message was geared towards your child landing with a middling GPA by senior year - but I think the bigger PSA for parents is that even for students who end up with a high GPA/high rigor profile - chances for T20 is honestly extremely limited if your child has no hook. Hooked students with lower rigor and/or lower GPA will leapfrog over the unhooked high fliers into these T20 schools (even T30 sometimes).

I think a better approach will be to decide where you think your child will thrive in HS and don't worry about college placement. Whether that be a very hard private or a less hard one or public.  This happiness can also depend on what course pathway they chose in terms of rigor.  And tell them up front that these other factors will come into play at the time of college applications. Balance accordingly[/quote]

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