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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the problem comparing StA & public exmissions: money.  Typically, StA parents with Ivy degrees can afford to send their legacy children to their schools.  But, I have worked with TJ and Whitman parents who were undergraduate alums of P & Y, yet their children didn't even apply.  Why?  The parents could not afford it.  Two working parents earning mid-level salaries won't get major Ivy FA.  But they can’t pay full freight, particularly if they have several children.  That's probably why hundreds of TJ grads attend W&M and U.Va each year.  Those of us who can afford today's tuitition rates should coulnt our blessings.  I have two extended family members who "turned down" Duke, and a friend whose daughter had to turn down several Ivys.  It’s just a class issue, not a talent one.   
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6 Presidential Scholar Finalists from DC where just announced. 4 were STA boys, 1, an NCS girl, and 1, I think from a public. I think its silly to argue that parents 'bought' this. STA just has an amazing nose for future leaders, and they do manage to say no to plenty of legacies, and plenty of folks with money, and also find the resources for stellar kids where financial help is needed. Not suggesting plenty of kids don't burn out there or later (take a note Tiger moms), but from what I have seen, the kids who do well there or after, have earned it.[/quote]

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