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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]an A at a good or very good public is probably equal to an A- at a top private (top 3-5 private) for that city/metro area.

Grades are probably equivalent for a test-in top public and a top 3-5 private.

selective colleges would know that.

My husband's brother was at a good public school in Ohio (was ranked #2 in that school) and got into MIT electrical engineering and nearly failed out his first year because the students and material were much more rigorous at MIT. It took him 6 years to graduate versus 4. His friends at MIT who came from top privates and test-in top publics did not struggle as much as he did. His kids are now at private school in MA because he really did see the difference.

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My brother went to MIT for EE after graduating from a mediocre public high school in a semi-rural part of OH that didn't send more than a few kids to college out of state.  Those who went to college mostly went to places like Kent State, Bowling Green, and Ohio U.  He did well at MIT.  As a practical matter, the public/private divide was irrelevant at MIT.  The domestic/int'l divide mattered a little more but for the domestic students, everyone he knew had already been taking advanced math courses in local colleges by junior year because they had torn through every math course at their high school by then.  Didn't matter whether you were a public or private school student.  If you hadn't already been taking high-level college math courses (AP courses aren't the same thing as taking the actual content of higher level math courses) or otherwise supplemented your HS math curriculum, you struggled.[/quote]

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