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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just made the most reasonable choice from year to year, which was usually “stick with this good-enough but imperfect school,” and everything turned out fine. I think that’s actually pretty common? Anyway it worked for us. [/quote]

People overemphasize the name brand of the school and underemphasize how well your child does there. If you really want your kid to go to Harvard, he or she can get there from any number of schools in our area, if you do well enough. [/quote]

Yes we actually had a college strategist suggest our child should go to Eastern HS so they would be one of the only kids applying to top colleges from there. Because at the application HS, the students are competing with each other eg Harvard will only accept 1 student from each HS so if
You go to a HS where fewer students are applying to the colleges you want, you will have better chances of getting in. It's a whole racket[/quote]

It is a racket, but this strategy requires that you accept your child will have very few academic peers all the way through high school, and you take the risks that requires. Will your child sustain an interest in academics and a top college when few peers do? Will your child develop the social skills to help the on succeed at a top college at a school where most students don't go on to 4 year colleges? Will your child develop the study skills or discipline to succeed at a top college or in their chosen career at a school like this?

Getting into college is only part of the picture. If you focus on gaming that at the expense of everything else, what have you really done for your child?[/quote]

High risk of failing out since kid will struggle big time.  There is no way kid will be prepared for college among peers with much rigorous academic backgrounds.

You are setting your kid up for disaster.  You just cannot supplement all subjects for 4 years.[/quote]

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