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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids in public and private, a disproportionate number of the private school kids are Ivy legacies sometimes double legacy or have famous parents so even with similar grades, those kids have an advantage. [/quote] +1 That would be the way being in private school could hurt. If a substantial number of your kids' classmates are bold faced names, very rich (donor advantage) or legacies. They would be getting in when your kid would not. That said, private schools are generally smaller than big public HS in this area, so it's easier to be a bigger fish in a small pond and acquire leadership credentials when it's a class of 200 vs. a class of 700 at a big public HS. Also private schools have a lot more resources in the form of guidance counselors, smaller class sizes with teachers more willing to write recs than public schools, administrators. [/quote]
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