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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- he goes to an unknown private school. Max amount of honors courses permitted. Not big 3. We enrolled him because of the pandemic and now he wants to stay. It’s cheap enough that even if we withdrew him and sent him to neighborhood public, saving that amount each year would not make the difference between public in state and private.[/quote]

Basically, the stories you hear re high-stats kids not getting into state schools usually involve one of 3 scenarios

1.  OOS kids whose stats may exceed those of in-state applicants but who either don’t advance the public school’s goals (financial, demographic or, programmatic) or whose stats aren’t as good as other OOS applicants from the same area
2.  OOS kids from private schools whose applicants, historically, haven’t matriculated even when admitted.
3. In-state kids whose stats are quite high compared to other admitted students but who come from schools or regions where those stats aren’t enough to make them more attractive than their peers locally.

If your kid might fall into category 2, then make sure DC does what can be done to express his strong interest in the school. This isn’t his safety — it’s his target.  And make sure the college counselor(s) at his HS know this as well.

Yes, there are various buckets.  But parents when to SLACs ain’t one of them.  [/quote]

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