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[quote=Anonymous]Having just gone through the college process with one child at a big3 school and about to go through it with a second. our observation is that the kids in the "middle of the pack" at the top privates probably benefit the most in terms of college placement.  They may not be getting into the very top Ivys or LACs, but plenty of those kids are at places such as Cornell, U Va, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, Claremont-McKenna, Wash U, Colby, Bates, Wesleyan, even U Chicago, Northwestern and Hopkins.  Lots at U Michigan, USC.

I think it makes less of a difference for the kids at the absolute top, whether at private or public, they have a good chance at the very top schools, but always a crap shoot unless a billionaire legacy or recruited athlete.

The very very much stronger and more personal college advising made a big difference to these kids, plus they were way better prepared for college once they got there, as compared to kids with similar testing and degree of academic innate talent who were at even places like Whitman, BCC and for sure Wilson or Walls, based on our kids friends at those schools.  The schools know that if they went through the rigor of Sidwell or St Albans or GDS, even if B students there and don't test phenomenally that when they get to college they will have good study habits, be able to write, and likely be better prepared for college than kids that got somewhat lost at a big public.

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