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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we'd have to know the safety OP. Some safeties are terrible at getting kids into decent colleges. You might as well save your money and go public.[/quote]

I'm the Baltimore person who posted earlier about "Door #3." What we've found so rewarding about DC's school is that the entire focus of high school hasn't been on getting into college. It's been about trying new things, forming relationships, and gaining a sense of self that we don't think would have been possible in our large public school, and also not about the college rat race that seems prevalent in the more elite schools.

I will say that I've also come to believe that schools don't reform the raw materials of the students that come to them, but rather refine them. If your child is in the 97th+ percentile on prep school admissions tests, he/she will probably be at roughly the same level on the SAT, and if he/she isn't there in 8th grade, he/she probably won't be there in 11th grade either. So we've chosen to focus less on the academic grind and more on the entire high school experience. [/quote]

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