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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much did college admissions weigh in your original decision to send your child to a Big 3? Many start far before high school, so the reasons for attending the school were not mostly about a great college, were they? [/quote]

The strivers start in high school. The secure wealthy folks start in K.[/quote]

This is comical because most of us know that the top academic folks did not enter in K.  [/quote]

Big 3 Parent here. I would say it is an even mix. Approximately half (or a bit higher - say 60 percent)  of of the top 20 percent (or even top ten percent) of the class began in MS/LS. Another half began in HS.[/quote]

Sidwell grad parent here.  Maybe MS.  Probably.  Most definitely not LS.

9th grade entry is for the top academics and they end up at the top of the class (along with a good number of MS admits).

That said, certainly many lifers do end up at Harvard.  Because Dad and Mom founded the cosmetics company where you buy concealer.  Or they're the president and first lady.  Or they comment on all the things each night on CNN.  But their HYP admissions don't mean their the top of the class.[/quote]

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