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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s much harder to be admitted from a public vs. another private.  I would not bank on getting in in 4th/6th/9th or at any point.  If you think you want to be in private school for high school, the sooner you make the switch, the better.[/quote]

Agree with this.  It gets harder with each entry point and you can never predict what type of kid you will have--ie will your kid end up being an academic superstar in 8th grade?  Hard to say when they're 4 or 5. [/quote]

Also agree. Get in as soon as you can so your child doesn’t have to compete down the road.  The lifer’s life![/quote]

My DCs would've been lifers at a Big 3, but we had to move and oldest DC entered another metro private in 6th. DC is now a senior and has been enrolled in the most rigorous STEM classes in HS. FWIW, the top stats kids in DC's classes are nearly all lifers. While the class is unranked, the top four of five students, as estimated by DC, are lifers. DC says that there is then a mix with lifers, kids like them who entered in 6th, and a group who entered in 9th.

DC thinks that there are also questionable admits at every entry level, from PK through 9th: "It is not necessarily a science, sometimes admissions gets it wrong."[/quote]

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