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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to op’s original question.  Op, you seem to have a belief that your kids will have a better chance of attending a T10 coming from Princeton High than your private, because you think the class will be less competitive.  Last year, Princeton high school had 371 AP scholars (students who scored at least a 3 on three or more ap tests).  Assuming this number is spread equally among sophomores, juniors and seniors (since freshman won’t have data)meven though more likely to be concentrated among juniors and seniors, that’s one hundred and twenty kids per class that will be gunning for highly selective colleges.
   Further, 84 kids applied to Princeton U from Princeton High two years ago.  https://www.towntopics.com/2025/10/29/matriculation-report-helps-phs-counselors-discover-student-trends/  That is roughly the number of kids who  think they are Ivy level applicants, the number is maybe 30 kids at my kid’s private.  
  19 of those kids were accepted which seems like a huge number.  But we know that three quarters will usually be faculty kids.  Let’s assume only two thirds are faculty kids.  That’s assume only one other kid is hooked in any way, also probably an underestimate.  That gives us an unhooked acceptance rate to Princeton from Princeton High of 7 percent.  You can compare that to your current school, but my guess is that they are similar.  Princeton High sends zero to two kids to other Ivies and about 3 to 5 to Cornell.  That isn’t better than my private, and the pool of competitive applicants at Princeton High is at least twice as large.

So it’s a nice place to live and you should give it a try if you want a suburb with a high quality of life.  But don’t move because you think it will improve your kid’s odds of getting into an Ivy, it won’t do that.[/quote]

The OP post did not mention getting into college.[/quote]

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