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[quote=Anonymous]We have had recent experience with two of the schools you list.  We found the college counseling excellent and realistic.  Every parent at those schools at some level thinks their kid has a chance for HYPS, so there are always going to be disappointed people who in part blame the school and college counseling.  But particularly with lifers at these schools, where admission was based on testing as a 4 or 8 year old, or siblings or alumni preferences for admissions to the independent school means that there are kids by HS who are not necessarily absolutely top academically in terms of testing, or who end up not having ideal study habits/motivation, and end up perhaps not at top 10 or 20 schools.  But if you are even considering these schools for a kid that is just entering high school, if she gets into one of those three schools, she is probably already a top tester and academically very strong, and it seems very unlikely that choosing one school over the other will make or break the college process in terms of college counseling per se. More important is how your child fits into the school, whether she is happy and productive and stimulated, and finds peers and extracurriculars that help her achieve her potential, which will then be reflected in a strong application. But no matter what, at least for another few years, it is really tough out there for admissions to the very very top colleges, and it is at some level a crap shoot when the admit rate is 6-10%, no matter what.  There are some patterns between which privates tend to send kids to the very top schools more frequently (Sidwell=Yale, NCS=Stanford, GDS=Harvard, and Princeton not as frequently for any) but unlikely you can figure out which school a current 8th grader will want to be at and whether there is any chance she will be academically strong enough to have any chance of getting in.  What we have been most pleased by is how well prepared our kids have been for college, in terms of the academic preparation they received at these schools, writing in particular. They have done extremely well at the very top schools, and believe they came in much better prepared than many of their new classmates. [/quote]

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