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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Firstly, I suspect op is a troll. Just send your kid to public, no one really cares.

As someone who actually had my kids in public before private, more than happy to pay for an experience that has been better in every respect, including college matriculation.[/quote]

I would pay double the already high tuition having seen the gap in quality between the public schools my kids were attending and the private they moved to. And the college matriculation is better. [/quote]

The college matriculation has been amazing at our public. But supposedly people don’t send their children to private for this. Yet they keep mentioning it. [/quote]
Yes, it's absolutely fascinating to me that so many parents have convinced themselves that college matriculation is better at private schools, elite or otherwise.  The data simply doesn't bear that out.  I picked a school with a specialized curriculum that I wanted for my own children, but I have no illusions that it'll make any impact at all on where they end up going to college.[/quote]

It certainly is at my private.  Roughly 20 percent of the class is going to an Ivy or Stanford--total of 16 kids, only two hooked kids  Also sending kids to most of the NESACs, including multiple to Amherst, Middlebury and Williams.  Also sending at least one kid (and often two)  to Hopkins, Northwestern, Wash U, Notre Dame, Georgetown, GaTech, Duke, UCLA, and UNC (oos).  Last year, two to Cal Tech.   Class of around 120.

Our local public is sending two kids to Ivies out of a class of 375, and no one to three quarters of the schools I just listed.  Upper middle -middle class suburb of a midatlantic city.[/quote]
There are many hooks, legacy is not the only one.  I suspect the percentage of hooked kids going to Ivies is much higher than you happen to know about.[/quote]

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