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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also several UVA and BC and at least 3 to Princeton.

GC Honors promoter - what sayeth ye?  [/quote]

It's pretty underwhelming this year. If you look at public schools in the area like Churchill or Whitman, they have better schools than Prep. The private school education isn't for every kid. [/quote]

Prep will have same schools as Churchill. They will be around 25 percent at top 20 schools. I believe Stone Ridge does as well. Using the data from Bethesda magazine, last year only 7 percent of the Churchill class of 22 matriculated to top 20 universities. So private schools win on a per capita basis. Just because a huge public school has more admits to top 20 schools doesn’t mean anything when comparing it to schools with less than a quarter of their class size. Math is funny like that. [/quote]

That is true. However, keep in mind these are public schools we’re comparing. Public schools don’t have any admissions process, [b]so not every kid is going to have the same incentive to try in school (since their parents aren’t paying)[/b]. Parents send their kids to Prep for the school’s reputation. [/quote]

You just proved the point that private schools are better than public schools as a motivating factor.  I prefer to surround my kid with other equally motivated kids, not a bunch of kids trying to coast through doing the least possible work.  This is just one of the many reasons private schools are preferable for families who want kids to excel.[/quote]

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