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[quote=Anonymous]OP, please understand that you are fighting for the Ivy spot from Andover/Exeter just as you are (and maybe moreso!) in public. The difference is that those schools have effectively already "screened" students so that the entire pool is made up of high-performing students--kind if like your public school was entirely filled with students who were in the top 10% of your class and you then had to be in the top 20% of that group. It's not an easier road.

The best thing you can do for your sister now is to continue to encourage her interest in school and academics and encourage her to seek out enrichment activities that she enjoys (sports, music, languages, etc.). Those matter for both boarding school and college admissions. Work hard yourself so that you are potentially in a financial position to help once you graduate.

Then, once she is in middle school, you can start to talk about whether she might like to go to boarding school. If she's in elementary now I assume she is not more than ten--so it's far too early to be thinking about whether she wants to go to boarding school or what her grades for admission might look like. Her thoughts will be very different when she is 13 or 14, and by that point her academic path may be much clearer so the decision may be moot.

I agree that it's sweet (and important!) that you're looking out for her--but you also need to let her make her own path.[/quote]

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