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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you are correct. I'm also the parent of a senior and the Big 3 results in terms of top 20 schools are worse this year than in the past for unhooked Big 3 kids.

Love them or hate them, the top private school kids are working their butts off and not seeing a correlation with high acceptance rates at competitive schools.

This is a national trend with test optional and the added impact of elite privates eliminating AP's makes it harder to compete.

So it is a bummer that  [b]yes, my kid works way harder than their sibling in public[/b]; yes, their big 3 private is more rigorous than public; yes, our kid in public may actually fare better in the admissions game. I think the money we spent on private was worth it in that it was the right fit for our kid, and I know they will be well-prepared for college.
But they sure as heck are not going to an Ivy, despite what, on paper, seem to be the right qualifications.[/quote]

Why do you pay for one kid to go to a super expensive private and the other stay in public? That seems more unfair than losing an admissions edge. And what's the quality of the public school? And your kids courseload there? 
 Or maybe you're just making things up.
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I think the parent with one at a big3, one at a public is a common character on this board. Said parent usually says that both schools are best for their individual children but always takes shots at one or the other depending on the point they are making. Personally I don't think there is a large population of parents who pay forty thousand a year for one kid to go to a school that the parent loves while sending their other child to a school that they believe is over crowed, not providing an education, and has behavior problems. [/quote]

I don’t think it’s that hard to see how this happens. Parents place the older child on one path—public or private—feel disappointed by it for whatever reason and do the opposite for the younger kid, but by then, older kid is happy, has friends and doesn’t want to switch. Happens all the time.[/quote]

I'm a long time public school parent who has one kid at a Big3 high school and I can think of 20+ others families like mine.  I'm not the above poster but I've also posted on here before.

I actually know two set of twins who were/are a public/private split for high school.  
It's far more common to use different schools for different kids than you might think. [/quote]

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