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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Seriously? I went to private and public schools and I can assure you that A students in public typically weren't A students in private. In fact, my friends and I always joked that whenever a public school kid told us their GPA, we'd subtract .6 to get their GPA at our school..[/quote]

Heh, this totally depends on the private school and the public school.  Some of the magnet schools in this country are fantastic and extremely competitive--and on par with any private school (Thomas Jefferson and Styvusant for example).  Some of the high performing suburban schools as well.  And some independent schools are true rigorous college prep environments.  But some private schools are not all that, and a lot of public schools in poorer neighborhoods are not very rigorous.  DH went to a very non-rigorous rural school where he opted out of finals for testing proficient on state exams and was one of three kids taking calculus as an independent study (sat in the back with the textbook and taught himself, and the teacher had office hours for any problems they had).  He then went to a no-name state school for undergrad.  He is incredibly driven and bright (and had to be to get out of his small town rural community), and I'm pretty sure he would have thrived wherever.  While what you said might generally be true for a top prep school versus a mediocre public school, it definitely depends on a lot of factors.  You sound like a snob.[/quote]

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