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[quote=Anonymous]It is hard to compare if you're considering schools in same towns with roughly similar demographics. If your kid is pulling those grades at a public in a rough neighborhood, or a rural neighborhood or a state that doesn't send many kids to desired college, they'd definitely have the better shot. It's been like that at Wilson, but that may be changing as school becomes more balanced vis a vis SES.

I would think a 4.0 student was not challenged in public. Grade inflation is rampant - everyone is an A student. I compared the number of honor roll students at our public to our "non big 3" private and it's a joke. Something like 2/3 of kids in our well regarded public are "honors" as was ours before switching. Compare that to top 10% honors at our private. I'd rather have my kid prepared for the challenges of life and it's struggles.

Try to focus more on which environment will give your child the academic preparation and social skills needed for college. Each kid is different.[/quote]

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