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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Humblebrag but congrats!
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College admissions seems to be the focus of public school parents, while private school parents focus more on life outcome, i.e. 10 years out of college.  Hope they enjoy the undergrad b-school.[/b][/quote]

This. It's a different perspective that is obvious once you're at a top private. There is not a grinder or "holy crap my kid needs to get into a top college at all cost" mentality.  [b]There is a huge percentage of kids at these privates that don't need a tippy-top name brand undergraduate degree because their family connections will get them where they need to go. [/b]

If your kid needs the degree because they don't have the connections then it's good they're going to Wharton. My kid needed the degree (we have no connections) so it's good that he's at a different Ivy. It's striking because now a few years into their degrees, my kid's DC private high school classmates who attend lower ranked colleges are getting better summer internships, etc through family connections than my kid and Ivy classmates are getting, despite the fact that the Ivy kids were always much better students, are now getting As, doing all the things. Such is life. [/quote]

Something doesn't compute.  Go look at Sidwell's class of 2025 college placements and literally 60% are attending top 20 schools (including top SLACs) and like 85% attending top 50 schools.  There was a group of like 6 kids choosing Tulane, and then some D1 athletic recruits at Kentucky and ODU...it's a no-brainer for the basketball player going to Kentucky...which are outside the top 50.

That leaves a small %age attending a random college.  Perhaps they don't care if their kid is at Harvard...Dartmouth will do...or Northwestern...or WashU...but they certainly care about a generally high level of college placement.

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