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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at the admissions for a Big3, some of the lower placing kids attend places like Tulane, Wisconsin, Richmond, etc. 
If you look at the admission for Wilson, this is where many the highest placing kids attend (outside of a recruited crew athlete or two).  I have kids at both schools and have watched admissions really closely for years. 
I would ague that paying for private is actually more advantageous for a kid who isn't going to be a top 10 student in public.  I have one of these:  he does well but he wasn't going to 
take 15 APs, etc, become editor of the school newspaper (there are many) and do a ton of other extracurriculars which are all things that are necessary to attend a decent college out of Wilson.   Attending private
gives him similar (if not better) college outcomes without a whole lot of stress of having to get a ton of leadership positions on his resume.  The competition for extracurricular leaderships positions at Wilson is fierce
and can be really stressful (per friends whose kids are there).[/quote]

Look I chose to send my kid to private for a lot of reasons but this is just not true re: the placement of Wilson kids...their ED list thus far includes MIT, Yale, Northwestern, Penn, Cornell, Brown, among others (I think only 1 is a recruited athlete)....There's a whole other set who are into Barnard, NYU, Emory, etc.  FAR fewer kids apply ED from Wilson than from privates for financial reasons (need to compare aid/merit packages) but to say that the highest placing kids aren't getting into elite schools is empirically not true.[/quote]

Agree with you.  This year's Wilson admits are really good. I'm the poster you're quoting.  Last year's were fairly dismal.  This year's are better than than those at the Big3. [/quote]

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