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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's more to life than letter grades. My kid has learned a lot more about how to be a good student in private school than he ever did in public school. Showing up, handing in decent (not outstanding) work, and behaving himself should not earn him As but that's all it took in public school. My DS has a 3.2ish UW GPA in private school and he will be very well prepared for college wherever he goes. [/quote]

Sounds like you are trying to justify money spent. That is not my experience in publics with my child.  Going to T25 next year…[/quote]

it was money well spent for my kid at a private.  3.6 GPA and going to an Ivy.

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That 3.0 kid might have fallen through the cracks and not done work in a big public. The private might have been sitting on them and giving them extra help and there was nowhere for them to hide. They might have had more options for college because they wouldn’t have had close to a 3.0 in public. No way to know that, but many parents are paying for more than just college outcomes.[/quote]

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