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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Target/safety would be case western 
Likely safety Brandeis (although maybe it’s too small?)
True safety Belmont (it’s a pretty campus near Vandy)[/quote]

Brandeis is small and it's not really in a college town. I think Tufts, BU, and Northeastern would be better if he's interested in the urban or college city/town lifestyle.[/quote]

I’m what world are Tufts, BU and NE safeties for this applicant?[/quote]

From a rigorous DC private (Sidwell or similar) they are safeties.  It's a different world than public.  
With only three B+ grades he is likely top 20% in the class, maybe even top 10%. [/quote]

No, they are not. Not even close. BU mayyybe but not Northeastern and definitely not Tufts.[/quote]

Agree that Tufts is not a safety for anybody--especially without showing previous interest, huge yield protection there. However, Northeastern and BU are 100% safeties for a candidate like OPs son. I guy, from Sidwell or St. Albans (assuming it's one of those-if it's GDS, Burke, or Maret, it's true, those won't have quite the same rate of acceptance).[b] But those grades put a kid at the top 15% of StA or Sidwell.[/b][/quote]

This.  
3 B+ grades from Sidwell/STA is likely in the top 10%.  He's a very, very competitive applicant. 
[b]It's very different from public.  This is not a public/private debate--just calling a spade a spade. [/b] These are about as good as a kid's grades get at these privates. [/quote]

But what is your statement based on? Is it your gut feeling that privates are so much better? or can you offer some measureable/objectives data that points to privates superioty over public? I dare you to back up your condensending post of "this is not about private vs public but privates are so much better".[/quote]

Good Lord, you are sensitive.  The point is--not that privates are better--just that the grading scales at some Top private schools are deflated.  no one said that private was better.  just that the smartest kids in the class  max out at about a 3.9--and grades aren't not weighted. In public there are many kids with a 4.0.  then you can weigh up to a 4.7+.

I have kids in BOTH public and private High schools.    the grading scales are just DIFFERENT.   That's the only point. [/quote]

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