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[quote=Anonymous]For high school absolutely, for LS and MS perhaps not as much.  The level of academic instruction and the intensity of personal attention in HS at two different local privates was so much higher than I ever experienced in even one of the very best public high schools, and much higher than their friends in local top public schools seemed to be getting even in the top academic tracks at those schools. They are far far better writers and analytic thinkers than I believe they would have been in a larger and less well-resourced school. I think the foundations they got will stand them in great stead for the rest of their academic careers and in life.  They have ongoing fantastic relationships with teachers and administrators that have shaped their academic interests even in college.  They have been extremely well-prepared for college compared to many of their new peers in college, and have done extremely well in terms of grades etc in two very selective and notoriously difficult schools.  They got to play sports at a varsity level throughout HS and participate in many other ECs, I suspect that would have been more difficult in a huge public school.  [/quote]

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