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[quote=Anonymous]OMG this is a crazy thread for so many reasons. It is generally just very very difficult to get in from public or private, as a non-athlete, non first generation, non international student is basically competing for 30 percent of total slots for a male student, or 30 perrcent of total slots as a female student. (Or nonbinary etc).

First, has your college counselor mentioned that colleges are looking for 20 percent first generation college students? This basically is mostly 100 percent publicly school category.

Then, schools are about 12 percent athlete - this is a mix but I would guess favors families with financial resources to competitively train students and/or kids already receuited to atheletics and gettinf scholarship money in privates (so at least half private).

Then, international students (another 10 percent) - theae are not US public achool kids.

So that leaves you with remaining about 55-60 percent of school - probably a mix of public and private - of which 30 perdent to boys and 30 percent to girls.

So already, it is a small pool, and then divided down to evenly distribute majors.

The main reason to potentially regret private school is if you can’t afford it and have blown off saving for retirement in exchange for private as the odds are against your child either way competing for 30 percent of spots.  If it were about the outcome, alone, you would know there is no guarantee here and save the money and invest it for yoir kid.

I am pro public and pro private - i chose private for my kid because of the social emotional development, whole child education,  not because of outcome, as that is not guaranteed either in private or public.

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