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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just think it's funny to compare how many people insist that they are sending their kids to private school for reasons that have nothing to do with college admissions, that they don't care about college admissions, etc., with how many people freak out when their private school's college admissions stats for the year are not up to snuff.  Like, maybe these are two completely distinct groups, but I think that's pretty unlikely.  There are a lot of people who talk a good game, but when the rubber hits the road, they absolutely expect that spending all that money means their kid will get into the elite colleges they want.[/quote]

I think it’s ridiculous to conflate the two things. I’m sending my child to private for the education and experience, which is its own reward. Nothing more. Separately and independently, regardless of where she went to school, I am sure college applications will be stressful. These things can and usually do coexist. Try to grasp this. [/quote]

Then I'm not talking about you.  But a hit dog hollers, I suppose.  IRL, I have never heard a public school parent say anything about private school college admissions one way or another.  I have heard private school parents grumbling that their hefty tuition checks aren't guaranteeing admission to the elite colleges they expect, or grousing that colleges discriminate against private school kids, or upset because the school had a "bad year" in terms of admissions, etc., and some of them are people who, had you asked them, would have insisted that they were sending their kid to private for all kinds of reasons that had nothing to do with college admissions.  [/quote]

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