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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at the admissions for a Big3, some of the lower placing kids attend places like Tulane, Wisconsin, Richmond, etc. 
If you look at the admission for Wilson, this is where many the highest placing kids attend (outside of a recruited crew athlete or two).  I have kids at both schools and have watched admissions really closely for years. 
I would ague that paying for private is actually more advantageous for a kid who isn't going to be a top 10 student in public.  I have one of these:  he does well but he wasn't going to 
take 15 APs, etc, become editor of the school newspaper (there are many) and do a ton of other extracurriculars which are all things that are necessary to attend a decent college out of Wilson.   Attending private
gives him similar (if not better) college outcomes without a whole lot of stress of having to get a ton of leadership positions on his resume.  The competition for extracurricular leaderships positions at Wilson is fierce
and can be really stressful (per friends whose kids are there).[/quote]

Lots of wisdom here.  We are a MoCo family in the Whitman district.  DD is very disciplined and hard working and made the top 10% at Whitman.  DS was not disciplined nor hard working and to be brutally honest was just not as smart as his sister.  He finished in the top half at a Big 3.  DD ended up at a top 20 state U.  No complaints there.  DS got into a few higher ranked state schools than his sister and ended up at a top 5 SLAC.  My view is that DD would have ended up at the same school, whether a public or private high school. For DS he would have been an average Whitman student and there is no way he would have made it into his current college had he remained at Whitman.  [/quote]

Why do you send your son to a private, but daughter to a public?[/quote]

Because my daughter is a self-starter and can navigate well in a large class environment.  My son needed a lot of teacher support and small class sizes.  I also gamed it out knowing full well my daughter would land in a great college coming from either a public or private high school, but knowing a middling student at a place like Whitman which my son would have been, would not allow him to land in as good a college as his Big 3 was able to do.[/quote]

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