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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid who is a sophomore at a Big 3 and by that let's say I mean St Albans/NCS, GDS, Sidwell or Maret.  I have heard through my school grapevine that this year the kids at the elite privates are having terrible results-
 especially the unhooked kids. [b] I have heard that they are negatively affected by test-optional, the elimination of AP's and grade deflation.[/b]

Ok please tell me your experiences- Big 3 parents only please...I am not interested in hearing how well your W school kid did, or how stupid you think I am for paying private school tuition.[/quote]

I would simply say to consider the self-interest of the people making these assessments. It can’t possibly be that this was an insanely competitive admissions year and their kids just didn’t make the cut; [b]it has to be that less-worthy kids, whose parents didn’t pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for private school, somehow had an advantage[/b]. Come on.[/quote]

I don't agree with you in pegging them as "less worthy," but [b]public school kids absolutely have an advantage[/b]. As a parent of a Big 3 JR, I've known that for years. That is not why I'm choosing to spend the money on the private school.

These are the kids the schools want now - first gen, URMs, public schools from rural Montana. If you don't know that going in, you're setting yourself up for a big disappointment.[/quote]

From https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/: “Less than 2 percent of the nation’s students attend so-called independent schools. But 24 percent of Yale’s class of 2024 attended an independent school. At Princeton, that figure is 25 percent. At Brown and Dartmouth, it is higher still: 29 percent.”

So unless those percentages shifted massively this year, your assertion just isn’t true.[/quote]

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