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[quote=Anonymous]Way too much trying to game the system here.  Colleges will consider each kid based on who they are and how they have done where they are.  Give the colleges some credit.

I would wager that the same kid with the same effort is likely to end up with about the same SATs and class standing and will qualify for about the same college whether kid is at public or private.

There are two areas, however, where prep schools do excel.  (At least how we have seen it - and we have had kids in both).  The first is college counseling.  Prep school counselors take a lot of time packaging the kid for college.  This can and does make a difference to admission committees.  They try to deny it, but I have it on good authority that it is difficult.

The second area is college readiness.  Now this is purely anecdotal, but worth putting out there.  We have a friend whose DD was near the top of her public school class (sorry details withheld to protect privacy).  She now goes to William and Mary.  Our DD has two friends from her prep school who also go to WM.  We heard from public school mom that daughter was really struggling with the workload.  Both prep girls reported that William and Mary was way easier than the prep school and were surprised at how many kids were not used to the workload. Will the public school kids adjust?  Certainly.  But when it comes to workload.  I can say from having seen it at both, the prep school workload is heavier.  At DD's school.  The average is about 3-4 hours per night. At our other kids public school, it was much less.  Even for the kids with lots of APs.  Does it have to be that much? Does it make a difference in the long run?  I don't know.  But that's the way it is.[/quote]

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