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[quote=Anonymous]Two other things to keep in mind:

1) The parents of kids in private school are far more likely to have gone to  an Ivy themselves; that gives their kids a huge leg up in the application process. All the Ivies give legacy kids preference.So their Ivy acceptance rate will be higher even if the colleges perceive their education to be the same or worse.

2) The real question for whether you have a good school is not where the kid gets in but whether they are well educated. If one measure of that is are they prepared to do the work when they get in, then I can tell you that my kid said she was as well prepared from Whitman as the private school kids were when she went to Harvard. Her performance--she just graduated--bears that out.

(And that's a serious measure--if you look at dropout rates for colleges many are astronomically high; lots of kids don't finish college or go on the 5 or 6 or 7 year track because they are not prepared. It would be interesting to compare private and public school data on that.)
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