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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s almost always about money.  [/quote]

Unless you are in the DC part of DCUM. We don't have a state school, so there is barely a cost difference between OOS public and private and the privates give more merit aid. [/quote]

We live in a good public school system. We are considering private schools for our children. I was comparing college admissions and our well regarded public school has so many students heading to UVA, W&M and VT.[b] [b]It made me wonder what schools those students got accepted to and could have attended that they gave up to attend the state public schools[/b][/b].[/quote]

Maybe you don't know where they got accepted. It is much harder to get into the top tier schools than it was in the 90's. And, depending on major and career goals, the good publics can have the same outcome as the privates. [/quote]

If their families are like ours, the students didn't apply to elite schools because the parents set a budget, and it excluded such schools.

It's about the student, not about the school.[/quote]

Op here. I know very few seniors since my kids are younger. I did meet a few who did ED with what sounded like perfect stats to UVA and never even applied to other schools. Other kids got into better schools and chose UVA. Then there are the other hundred(s) who I don’t know personally who will be attending VA and MD state schools.[/quote]

With younger kids and a limited world view, now is the time to keep an open mind and understand that you don't have a good sense of the current landscape in college admissions or the very wide variety of family financial and other considerations that go into picking a college.

FWIW, we could have stretched to allow DS to apply to more selective schools but he only wanted to go to Virginia Tech and is doing very well there.[/quote]

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