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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a very hard time believing that the top 10 or 20 percent of MCPS graduates (for example) are consistently getting admitted to the so-called top colleges.[/quote]

Exactly.  If a typical MCPS class is about 800 kids, that would be 80 or 160 kids, which seems unlikely.  [/quote]

It's not.  The top 10% of public school graduates is not equivalent to the top 10% at an elite private school.  The private school admits only the top x% of its applicant pool, which is itself a top y% of the general public (since these kids have parents who care enough to make the application, even irrespective of HHI).

This is why its so hard to answer OP's question, since it would take a lot of data and number crunching to compare apples to apples.  [/quote]

If you are in a wealthy, high SES area with good publics—the top 10% does not vary from the top 10% at private.  There are enough kids that are all extremely high performing.  And the schools are huge—2500 so there are many more to compete with.  You don’t have a class 50% or more legacy- some of which are dumb as a bag of rocks.  A class of 700 students vs a class of 200 can equal much more competition.[/quote]
This is correct.

The top students at private and the top students at public aren't going to be significantly different academically if at all (and the public ones in that case likely have an advantage - less coddling etc).  I say this as a private grad.[/quote]

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