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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The college outcome is the same either way. There’s no prestige outside of DC except for Sidwell (which will make others crazy but is true) so Big 3 is a DC bubble thing. Do what’s the best fit. Overall well being and happiness doesn’t have a price, especially when your best fit school is probably also an amazing school people in other areas can only dream about. We’re so lucky and lose touch with that a lot. 
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This times a million. Outside DC no one knows the difference between St Albans, St Andrews, St Stephens… it’s all a blur. Honestly even inside DC it’s a narrow pool of people who know the difference, and an even smaller group that actually cares.

Also as has been said many times on this board, the admissions stats to top colleges is far more correlation than causation. The same kid at two different private schools is not going to have higher chances of attending an Ivy from STA/NCS/Sidwell. In fact, the opposite might be true, and if you really want to maximize your kids college chances, you should send them to a good k-8 and then a public high school.[/quote]

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