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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bumping post up. Really want to know what everyone thinks! Does TT really provide a lot of marginal benefit if kids are tracking to top quartile of class academically?[/quote]

It matters a TON, even at the better suburban schools.  For example last year at Chatham NJ - a solid upper middle class town with good school system.  It's often ranked in the top 10% of the state.  
High property taxes but good schools is the trade off.

Last year class had about 300 graduates.  Obviously not everyone is bound for 4 year college, but i think it's like 90%

1 matriculation into cornell, duke, princeton, yale, uChicago -  that's it for the top schools.  (they did have a vandy, ucla, berkley, georgetown, usc, unc)

so you have to grind hard as kid to get into a top school.   and it's not like this is a piece of cake - the parents are professional and all aiming for the same schools.

if the goal is BC, Tuffs, Tulane, Indiana, Middlebury, NYU, Wake Forest  - and those are good schools - then that's a different story - although still have to be in top 20% of the class.

College exmissions are MUCH harder in the burbs.  [/quote]

I don’t think it’s that much harder. You’re comparing apples to oranges. NYC TT schools are filled with hooked kids, Chatham PS is not. There’s no guarentee that you’re unhooked kid would have better results. I would be happy if my kid got into any of those colleges.[/quote]

I don’t know why this argument is always made, as if ivy legacy parents or rich families only have kids in TTs.  It’s just not true. [/quote] envy?[/quote]

Very often the case. If your standard family at a highly ranked public was making enough to comfortably afford a 3BR and two tuitions in Manhattan, they’d be doing it. Most got forced out and come here to explain why the suburbs are actually better than the world’s most popular destination. [/quote]

And also why they tiger mom their kids so they can get into a good school so they don’t have to move out of the city when they are 35 and deciding about schools. [/quote]

Yep. It’s depressing and dispiriting for them. It’s self inflicted, going to Chatham (lol) isn’t going to lead to some incredible life outcome compared to some decent K-8 in nyc. [/quote]

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