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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how these people argue that:

1. Private school parents seek status.

2. Private schools do WORSE in college admissions than public schools.

If these parents seek status, why would they send their kid somewhere that makes it HARDER for their kid to get into an elite college?

That would work against the very thing you argue these parents want.[/quote]

Because it is an illusion? [/quote]

So these people can’t look at matriculation stats? Are they blind? [/quote]

Not Blind at all.  Yes, on average, top private schools might do a bit better for their top 20% students. But still, a top student at Montgomery-Blair or Walls might have a higher chance of getting into an Ivy than a top student at GDS or Maret. The bottom 50% is even harder to predict. 
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The magnet schools are not a reasonable comparison.

Look at regular public schools. [/quote]

Why are magnets not a reasonable comparison? Your Ivy-bound kid should have been able to get into a magnet. And we don’t need to look at magnets either, just the outcomes of similar demographics at public schools. I’m sorry if going to say, Whitman instead of Holton, would have so crippled your child as to diminish their college prospects, then your kid likely was not Ivy bound in the first place, at any school.

The real comparison for privates is how average or below average kids fare. There, I can believe that those kids might get a boost compared to public. [/quote]

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