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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been around long enough to know people convinced private schools is the answer and people convinced public schools is the answer are never going to mix.

Pragmatically, as someone who went to private school and then an Ivy and with Ivy classmates from both private and public schools, and with friends and family and coworkers at both public and private, and both in the DMV and elsewhere, there are too many blanket assumptions being made. Every school is different. Every child is different.

Take the DC schools. The Big 3 are filled with prominent families who are extremely connected. A legacy at a Big 3 with parents who are famous in their professions or industry and generous donors are in a different category than your bright UMC kid who isn't a legacy. The DC schools draw from a big pool of connected families due to the status of Washington, DC as the nation's capital. Compare that to, say, Baltimore or Pittsburgh or Cleveland or Kansas City. Their top privates are at a disadvantage because these cities have far fewer of the connected families, which affects the matriculation records. NCS isn't better than Bryn Mawr in Baltimore, but NCS has families that Bryn Mawr doesn't, so NCS will have more girls going to elite universities. Same for St. Albans versus Gilman. An unconnected applicant from NCS with parents who aren't legacies and who aren't connected in some capacity and who doesn't tick off the fashionable diversity boxes these days has no better chances of admissions to the Ivy of her dreams than had she been at Whitman.

Private schools often have the great advantage of selecting their students and can weed out the troublesome and unwanted, which publics can't. But high performing public schools in UMC suburbs are still excellent schools and still send kids to great colleges. I don't kid myself otherwise. I see it all the time.

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Did your parents attend your Ivy?  We’re they big donors?[/quote]
Were ^^^[/quote]

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