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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ds had a b average from a mom big 3 private and a 30. Got into both unass and Skidmore among many others. B students from big 3 with 31 ish scores will get into many of the schools mentioned. Ignore all stats on gpa or class rank other than your school’s Naviance and talk to your counselor. [/quote]

EXACTLY! School context really matters here, and solid Bs at Sidwell/STA/NCS/GDS is not the same as solid Bs at my kid's public school.

The kid should continue to discuss target schools with the counselor and applying to 6-7, not 3.[/quote]

Many of these kids would be A students in public. The top DC private schools are very demanding.[/quote]

Baloney re these kids being A students at public.[/quote]

You are wrong. You should see the level of work that is asked of 8th graders at my kid’s school. As are a dime a dozen in public but much harder to get in these schools.[/quote]

"Public" school is not a monolith, and what I've seen from kids in Big 3 schools, their curriculum is not very different from the curriculum of a high quality public school (which has plenty of kids of highly educated professionals, who happened not to go the hedge fund/law firm partner route).  The only difference is the classes are smaller and the kids have a lot more resources across the board.[/quote]

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