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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'M THE OP!! and while I am not shocked at the amount of vitriol this post sparked from public school parents, their very presence on this thread continues to confound me.

Why do all the public school parents assume private school parents are rich? In our family, private is a huge financial investment and sacrifice. So yes I am concerned that my kid may but shut out of target colleges for friends' kids who are in public who, by my friends' description have sadly had no instruction and are still getting all A's for no work.

That said, I hope my kids will be better prepared heading into university, and as it has been pointed out by numerous PP's, getting into college is not the only reason to invest in private education.  I know private school is not a guarantee of anything. My concern is that it is actually becoming a LIABILITY to be in private.

A few clarifications:
1. No I'm not a Maret parent- but I do not want to get more specific
2.  I'm not worried about my "little snowflake" not getting into HYP.  When I said getting hammered I meant kids not getting into 9 out of ten of their schools, getting shut out from targets and safeties.
3. Still interested in how kids are doing from real Big 3 parents. It sounds like a lot of low matches and safties and wait lists for unhooked kids?[/quote]

I just want to say that you are not expressing concern that your kid won't have a good place to learn in the next phase of his/her life, you are saying that you are concerned that they will be beat out for their spot by a public school student. (Like it would be okay if it was someone as good as them.) Plus, I have a hard time believing that many of your friends would send their kid to a school that offers "no instruction." Finally, you described most kids getting into their targets and safeties as "getting hammered." If you understand those categories, you should have predicted that they are exactly where "most kids" would be expected to land. Reaches are crap shoots, which accept less than 10% of applicants. So it still comes across as if you expected your tuition dollars to unlock some magic key and that you are shocked that your kid actually had to compete with the masses in the end. [/quote]

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