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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other thread is talking about private, including the Big3 is waste of money and with no advantage to college admissions.  Would be interesting to actually see the stats for the bottom 75% of class.  I am sure to 25% are what people are touting here.[/quote]

Nope. There are "bottom 75%" who applied to non-Ivy, first choice schools and are getting in ED. They may not be schools that some consider "elite" (I am referring to the long thread in the College forum here) but they are those students first choices. Schools like Carnegie, Case-Western, Pitzer, etc.[/quote]

Okay, but was spending money at Big3 helping them get in at the low tier schools or would they still have gotten in coming from a public?[/quote]

Your brain is truly in the wrong place. You have no idea what you are talking about to ask such a question.[/quote]

I would argue that being in the lower 75% of your class at a private school actually hurts your application.  college admissions is mainly a numbers game and if your class standing is low you will be over looked.  Funny how people think spending tons of money on private school gives them a leg up, but in reality it is the opposite.[/quote]

Not the point. I would not have chosen our public school for my kids if they were guaranteed Valedictorian. Class rank and "better chance at whatever school YOU think is worthy" has nothing to do with why we chose the school.

Also, these schools don't rank students anyway. Have you noticed in the common data sets where it list the percentage of kids at the top of the class? Well, just below it it lists the number of admitted students who gave a class rank -- its usually a small number. All those admitted private school kids did not have a class rank -- and for plenty of them, it would have been below the 25th, even with 1500+ SATs and years worth of college level courses. Rank doesn't matter in a small school of highly capable kids. For example, Harvard shows that 94% of Freshman were in the top 10% of their class; however, only 39% even had a class rank to submit -- and "almost 40%" of Freshman attended private schools. [/quote]

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