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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holton has 11 girls (out of 92) going to Ivies this year. Six more are going to Stanford, Duke, UChicago and Northwestern. [/quote]

I think this is a good baseline.  The privates all seem to have good college results, which is heartening.  There is a lot of private bashing on here but they all seem to do pretty well at the end of the day.  True, long gone are the days when half of the class went to Ivies but the results are still above what the average acceptance rate is for various colleges.[/quote]

But there's no particular reason to attribute it to the schools, rather than the kids or their families. DC went ED to a &lt;5% admit rate college from GDS.  GDS was a great fit for DC and they had an excellent high school experience socially and academically.  I am happy to have paid the tuition because I appreciated what DC got from the school. But, every one of DC's friends at school had parents who went to grad school and most had parents who went to an Ivy for college or grad school or both. They were incredibly internally motivated and intellectually engaged. I am sure these kids would have done great in college admission no matter where they went to high school even if they didn't apply to their legacy colleges. Like my DC, most of the adults they knew growing up went to elite schools because they were their parents' friends from college or work. They did not just have books at home, they had serious academic books on the shelves. You can't just credit the schools when these kids have social advantages unthinkable to 99% of high schoolers. [/quote]

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