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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The results from some of the top private schools (e.g., Sidwell, GDS) are really impressive.  It doesn't look like a lot of these kids are athletic recruits.  Presumably the vast majority are full pay but I don't think that's really much of a hook (a lot of full pay kids in public schools in the area too).  I'm wondering if a lot of these kids are legacies? Or are they just really, really disproportionately impressive so that they can overcome the lottery-level admissions rates to top schools.[/quote]

Private school families are more likely to be able to pay for their child to actually attend the top schools. Most likely many top public school students also get in at similar rates but wind up attending state schools or less expensive non-ivy schools. That os where you see the difference in the outcomes of who actually attends what school and why kids from privates dispeoportionately attend top rated, pricier private schools.[/quote]

PP here - and you can see phenomena very clearly if you look at what colleges students in area public schools go to in what is considered "wealthier" area publics vs. less wealthy publics - for example, you can see that students at Churchill and Whitman have a higher number of students going to Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, etc. than students from Gaithersburg HS or even Richard Montgomery - certainly we know that a number of students at those schools, particularly at RM given the IB program are high stats and high qualified, but you see most students on the school's instagram going to lesser known/public schools whereas the Churchill, Whitman, and BCC clusters have families with much higher incomes on average and you see many more final commits to schools like

It money and ability for a family to afford a particular school - that's the difference - that's the "hook" not because kids at Sidwell and GDS are inherently better, smarter, or have some je ne sais quoi that other kids don't have.

If my family could have afforded it, I would have attended NYU in the 90s, but they couldn't, so I didn't.  Look at other messages on this board - the subset of families who ask about whether they should send their children to their "dream school" or one they can afford/is less expensive are not the ones attending Sidwell and GDS - the families at Sidwell and GDS don't have that dilemma, so they can disproportionately choose the top schools and those are the only results you see on Instagram or the scho[b]ol's website - you don't see the other 10 schools the kids who commit to UMD get into.[/quote][/b]

The question is how many kids are really like that? 10 admits, but committing to UMD that you know? I know very, very few. Mostly, the public-school kids don't get in or are WL.[/quote]

What is your sample size? How many kids have told you their admit lists from public schools in the area? Hundreds?[/quote]

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