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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard from my kid that results are so bad this year at our (Big3) school that the college counseling office is now telling kids 
to either take a gap year OR matriculate at a lower tier school and "try again next year".

Have you heard this? It is worrisome or typical advice?[/quote]

If I spent 200k on a high school and that was the outcome, I'd want a refund [/quote]

Yah, nope. Money is well spent regardless. To each their own.[/quote]

One more time for the cheap seats: you do not send a kid to a private school, Big 3 or whatever, solely because you think it will increase their chances to get into an Ivy or the cream of the crop schools. If this is your attitude, you deserve to be disappointed.[/quote]

One more time for the cheaper seats: we are not talking about "Ivy or cream of the crop schools".  We are talking about kids getting rejected from all their picks ranked 75+.[/quote]

Yelling back from the very cheap seats:
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The level of privilege that leads to someone is shocked that their kid who isn't in the top 50% of their class, can't get into schools like Fordham and SMU (the bottom of the T75) which are well within the top 20% of National Universities (the most prestigious of the categories on USNWR), is what we are talking about. [/b]

For those whining about how public schools are better, you do realize that the kids in the bottom 50% at public are going to Montgomery College, or UDC or maybe if they're lucky someplace like Frostburg or Christopher Newport.

But keep whining.  It's amusing to us in the cheap seats.  [/quote]

This. Bottom 50% at Big 3 only means that the kid's parents have enough money to pay for Big 3. Your child would still be bottom half at public. Stop with the delusions that your child is only bottom half because they are at a private school. [/quote]
Not even close. They have standards and must meet certain grades. The average SAT at a school like GDS, NCS, Sidwell or STA is hundreds of points above private school kids and even if you did the median score it would still be so much higher. You are comparing apples and oranges. [/quote]

Most public schools have kids who won't go to college, they also have kids who just aren't very bright. The kids from GDS, NCS, Sidwell, STA... are competing against the top quarter or 10% of a given public high school not the whole class and those kids are going to look as good as if not better on paper than a kid in the bottom quarter of a private [/quote]

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