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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s very difficult to differentiate yourself with grade inflation and the sheer number of students.[/quote]

Most of those students aren't getting 1500 SAT's and a stack of good AP scores, though. From what I've seen, each of these schools has a cohort of a couple dozen smart kids whose names show up on every list of winners of blah blah prize or academic honor or whatever, and most of those kids end up doing very well college-wise; as long as your kid is smart enough to be part of that group they're in pretty good shape.[/quote]

The point by is a lot of students at those schools do get those scores and a much higher proportion fail to get into a top college than their counterparts at TT high schools. It is more unpredictable an outcome from the publics. [/quote]

I don't think that's true, though - the top kids seem to pretty much all do OK. Or if they don't, it's usually because there's some other problem or even simply that the family doesn't want to spend the money or the kid wants to stay closer to home or whatever.

Also, even if I accepted your proposition that every single kid in the top 25% at a TT high school gets into a top college, in terms of choosing a school for your kid, it's very hard to know whether your kid is going to end up in that top 25% - you may feel like they're very smart but not necessarily at that level of granularity, and it takes more than just smarts anyway. (and of course TT admissions itself is notoriously a crapshoot, so another key question here is 'is it worth going through years of effort to try to get my kid into a TT when it probably won't work or should I just make life easier on our family by putting them in a nice suburban school')[/quote]

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