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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The truth is, which public school people like to downplay, it’s incredibly difficult to get into the best privates, or even the less competitive ones, from public[/b]. It’s much easier from a private k-8. It also helps if you are a legacy. Otherwise it’s not a smart risk to take if you want private for your kid. Going to public and expecting to switch to private later is just very unlikely. Anecdotal evidence doesn’t matter, the admission percentages tell the truth. [/quote]

This is very much the truth.  I think we (public parents) who parent our kids in the DMV encounter many private school kids (kids of our friends, co-workers, neighbors, sports' teams, etc) and we none of them seem to be much different than ours and none of the are rocket scientists and we think "hey, it's pretty normal to get into these schools if you just want to pay the $50K.  I mean these are just normal kids.  Maybe someday I'll move my kid but not quite yet because he's doing just fine in public".  And then you take the admissions tours in 9th and the staff are so friendly and approachable and also make it appear that you have a totally great chance.

But then the reality is that it's like winning the lottery to get a public-to-top private school in 9th.  It's really, really, really hard.  These schools probably admit 25% from public in 9th and many of them are athletic recruits. So if there are 20 spots, [b]FIVE[/b] of them will come from public school and this includes 2 genders and every.public.school.in.the.DMV.  It seems so easy and yet it's nigh on impossible.  [/quote]

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