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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our local public an A-/A+ student has SAT's of 1800s. My DD was a B+ at her big three and her SAT's were 2200s. The top students had closer to perfect scores. [/quote]

My kid got a perfect score with 3.9/4.7 GPA - a public kid. So, yeah, it depends. [/quote]

Given the fact that only about 500 kids per year receive a perfect score (defined as 2,400), it would really be an outlier for student receiving such a score to be outside of the top 10% of his or her class - whether public or private.  One of the following is probably true in this case:

1.  This student is brilliant but not particularly hard working in the classroom
2.  You are using a liberal definition of "perfect"
3.  This student is a statistical anomaly

In any of the circumstances above it does not disprove the general comments being made by most posters that you are more likely to find a B/B+ student at the top local privates with 2,200 SATs than one would at a public school.[/quote]

I think all private school parents want to, need to believe that.[/quote]

NP: I don't want to or need to believe this because I don't care what other people's kids (public, priavte, homeschooled, no schooling) are doing. I only care about mine. So please don't kid yourself.[/quote]

What does this even mean?[/quote]

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