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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If in the top 10% of the class, yes, they will be in good shape.  After that, no, I don't think it confers much advantage these days.  [/quote]

I agree with this.  The problem being that it's really not easy to be in the top 10%.  Pretty much everyone at a big3 for high school is very smart.  Being in the top 10% is reserved for kids who study non-stop at the expense of almost everything else.  
I'm beginning to realize that college admissions-wise my kids my kids would have been better off or just as good in public.  They're well rounded kids--they work hard and do well in school, they play travel sports, they volunteer, they have active social lives---
but they're not going to be in the top 10%.  That is reserved for the kids who are compulsive about school (more power to them but it's not most kids).  
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Curious. Does this really work?  Denigrating other kids to rationalize your own kids mediocrity?

The top 10% kids at our school are all well rounded and play sports and do theater. That’s how they all get into top 10 schools. You don’t get in just studying all the time.

Do you know why your kid didn’t make the top 10%?  They just weren’t smart enough. But continue living in your fantasy world. [/quote]

Sorry.  I was not meaning to be rude but you clearly are.  The kids in the top 10% at our Big3 schools (my kids are 2 different ones) are really really driven to study.  I don't know how to phrase it without you taking offense and insulting my kids.  But my point stands it's not easy to be in this percentage.  90% of the very bright, hard working class are not.  Those who are work really hard and are pretty compulsive about doing well (not meant to be an insult).  [/quote]

So you should be excused because you’re just an inadvertent asshole insulting other kids.  That makes it all better.   The basic premise is simply incorrect.   Kids at the top study AND do all the other things you think your kids are doing.   [/quote]

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