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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids in high school right now. The oldest is at a top private and the youngest opted for Jackson-Reed. I say they are roughly equal in intelligence, but the private school kid works much harder and has more work. However, the private school kid has managed to pull a 3.8 GPA compared to the J-R sibling with a 4.4 GPA.

According to Naviance, the private school kid has almost no shot at a T10 admission and MAYBE a chance at Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, WashU if they apply ED1. He has good UChicago chances, but he doesn't want to go there. The J-R kid is right on target for Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc. And what's more interesting, is that there are &lt;10 applicants to the absolute top colleges each from J-R every year compared to like 1/2 of the private school kids gunning for the T10.

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What’s the JR students unweighted GPA? That 4.4 is meaningless. JR sends a very small percentage of its students to Ivy+ each year.

Btw, at my child’s Big 3, a &gt;3.80 GPA puts you into play at EVERY school, [b]and students are getting into UChicago with a 3.5 GPA. [/b]

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Fiction.

— Big 3 parent[/quote]

Lol—then either your children don’t attend a real Big 3, or they don’t attend the one my children attend. [/quote]

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