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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All this talk of bad exmissions and nearly every K-8 hiding their exact outcomes on their websites makes me question why anyone would choose these schools over a decent K-12. If a median student at Buckley doesn’t have a shot at a TT then it’s really not a decent value proposition [/quote]

Sometimes the right school at K is not the right school for high school. Also, what is “bad exmissions”? Would Sacred Heart, Avenues, Grace or Trevor be considered “bad”?
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I would consider avenues pretty not great. The others are…. Ok [/quote]

A good student would consider these outcomes to be less than ideal. Whether they are worth 70k depends on whether you are worth deep into eight figures. A working professional shouldn’t shell out and make sacrifices for Trevor. [/quote]

The beauty (at least to me) of some of these schools is that there are kids who know from day one that they are not aiming for Ivies. So if your kid enters aiming for Ivies and with a somewhat reasonable chance of getting there, they are not competing with their entire class for spots. It is kind of like going to a good suburban public school. They get plenty of kids into top schools but if you look at the whole school the "average" outcome isn't going to look great.[/quote]

Yea. Matriculation for college may be maximized. But you’re spending a pretty penny for a 3T school many New Yorkers look down upon (Dwight is not 2T) and that may have a number of idiots in each class. In an extreme example, would you enroll your child in a special needs high school if it meant they’d get into Harvard? [/quote]

So is the NYC mentality that kids get more respect if they go to Chapin and then on to Lehigh or SMU, versus Dwight or Avenues and then on to Princeton? [/quote]

Dwight is a face tattoo that even Princeton can’t wash off. Being a rich Latin American admit to Princeton is its own level of sleazy and unqualified. So yea Chapin or Trinity to SMU is more respectable. [/quote]

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