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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is silly and arbitrary. It relies purely on test scores - the SAT for Presidential Scholar candidates and the scores themselves, PSAT for National Merit - which isn't surprising for a test prep business.

Even worse, the data are unreliable. The privates do not report their SAT scores. The public schools claim different/higher scores than the College Board. The ranking table includes a percentage for the average number of students who go on to a top 15% college, but it doesn't include the number in the ranking. This number is not reported by any of the schools, so there is no reason to believe that it is particularly accurate.  Even sillier, the top 15 college list doesn't include Stanford or Columbia.

Please don't use junk lists like this to figure out which private schools make sense for your child. Visit and talk to other parents. [/quote]

ok tell us what your scores your private school kid received.

Sound a bit bitter for alllllll that money you spent [/quote]

Just between you and me... You're the one on this thread that sounds bitter. Why are you so sure other people made the wrong decision for their children and why do you care? The reason students at the top privates get high test scores is because they have to compete for a spot in the school and academics and test scores are a big part of the competition, just like at TJ. Parents don't send their children to private schools because they think it will boost SAT scores. They send them there because of the environment.[/quote]

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