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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, pp....that's a big risk. Guidance counselors at private high schools have zero pull. The kids from most privates who get into top tier schools either had the test scores or they are legacies. Your kid would have a better shot getting into a top college if he was a shining star somewhere...anywhere. And admittedly it's tough to shine at Wooton or Whitman, but perhaps a tad bit easier at another public school.[/quote]

Guidance counselors at private high schools have zero pull?

I suppose one could go round and round on that one.  Impossible to quantify.  I can only say that at our private Big-3 school, the bottom half kids all seem to end up at the same schools where the top 20 percenters at the public schools end up.  I also know for a fact these college placement directors have a direct connect to admissions folks at many schools.[/quote]

The top 20 percent of my DCs public school class is 110 kids, which is about the same size as the big 3 classes (bigger than St Albans, slightly smaller than SFS).  Most of that group at DCs school will be NMSFs or commended scholars (was 85 kids this year).  About half will go to Ivy League or other very top schools (Stanford, MIT, etc.).  The rest will probably go to very selective schools, as will many of the kids below the top 20%.  Yes some will certainly go to UMD because of economics or because they want to, which is less likely in the Big 3.

I think you need to consider the numbers when making comparisons by percent of the class since the pool in public is so much larger, and the selection critiera so much different (i.e., live in the school boundaries for our public school).

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