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[quote=Anonymous][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]

My kid graduated from one of these so-called Big 3s. In fact, they were thrilled to have my B- kid and nobody could have cared less that he wasn't getting better grades. They have to be able to have a large margin between the top of the class and the bottom. They offered no way to help him (he worked incredibly hard and, according to multiple neuropsych evals is smarter than 99% of the population on almost every scale--but  has severe ADHD and massive executive function deficit), pigeon-holed him by his first semester freshman year. College counselor told him to apply to High Point. My genius kid was not going to High Point--got into Top 20 thanks to connections and is doing brilliantly. Now my younger is stuck at one of these privates going through the exact same thing. I know if they were at a public they would be given many more opportunities for re-takes and extra credits, which the private refuses to do. I believe that hard-working, middle of the pack kids have a much better chance at better colleges if they go to a strong public. I despise our private, but spouse will not listen to reason. [/quote]

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