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[quote=Anonymous]Don’t go to private school for college admissions purposes!  Go for the education or whatever else you like about it, but not this.

My kids went to private.  One went to a private HS with sub 10% admission rate (not in the DMV). Guess what!  Super competitive and very hard to be at the top of the class.  She was at the top through middle school in our public school.  She got into great colleges (not T-20) with a “low”  unweighted GPA but I honestly think she would have had better results at our local public and with a lot less work.  This school prides itself on having a lot of homework (an hour a night for each regular class and 1.5 hours for each “honors” — no APs offered, block schedule so average of 5 hours a night).  The kids at our public school doing APs were doing way less work.

I feel she could have gotten a “better” college result from public, where she would have a weighted GPA and would be higher up in the class, but I don’t regret our decision (and the $200k) for a minute.  She got an amazing education and was very well prepared for college.

My other kid absolutely needed the smaller class sizes in private and would have gotten most at a large public school (we know because she was in public for elementary and needed a ton of remediation when she switched).  I don’t know if public college acceptances would have been better or worse.  Really hard to say.  I do feel like the private tried to keep her expectations in check and had her apply to lower ranked schools.

I’m very pro private school for the right reasons, but to me, those reasons do not include college admissions[/quote]

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