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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Husband and I graduated from our state flagship and the private and Catholic school kids ran circles around everyone in the classroom and socially. I went to "one of the best" public schools in the state and could not keep up. They were on a different level. [b]Anyone pinching pennies when it comes to kindergarten through 12th education for an alleged better roll of the dice with Ivies is frankly an idiot[/b].[/quote]

They're an idiot because there is no better roll at a DMV public.  If you ever review the admits from Whitman, Wilson, Mclean, etc. something like 98% of the Ivy admits are legacy, athletes or URM.  THE SAME FREAKING demographics as the private school admits.  THERE IS NO MAGIC IVY-BOUND HIGH SCHOOL FOR WHITE OR ASIAN KIDS.  Except many some of the NE boarding schools?
But actually I'm sure it's the same story there.  More admits but they're probably also legacies, URM, athletes plus some Ivy faculty kids thrown in.  [/quote]

Coming from the DMV, public or private, is frequently detrimental for applicants. [/quote]
Cold hard truth is that only about a dozen Whitman graduates each year out of a class of 600 will attend an Ivy. It’s also about a dozen at Sidwell each year out of a class of 125. Those dozen kids, whether from Sidwell or Whitman, are the same kids.

Probably the real difference maker, if it’s important to people, is for selective college admissions at the tier below immediately Ivies. Ivy admissions have been a crap shoot for decades. [/quote]

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