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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read this board and freaked out (for a minute) about sending my DC to a Big 3 for US.   I tried to look deeper at this question to insure I was not harming my child’s academic options.   My analysis was that I was not.  Private schools publish their college matriculation data and, while public schools do not, admissions data is available.   Giving every benefit of the doubt to the public school admission data, I still came to the conclusion that Big 3 certainly doesn’t harm you and probably helps you with college.  And I don’t care about Ivies so I didn’t look at that angle.   I don’t think USNWR is at all correct (but I had to use some metric), so I used its Top 15–places like UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, Rice, Georgetown.  I hear all this message board nonsense about “hooked” kids at the Big3, but I know that’s equally true at my fancy local public high school where I know just as many parents who are alumnae of these places/potential big donors/etc. as well.  So do your own homework future readers.

My conclusion was that it really depends on the specific public school. I can easily believe that if you aren’t in one of these few little bubble MCPS/FCPS/APS fancy public schools then maybe you actually do get a public school bump.  I wouldn’t know since I haven’t looked at that question. [/quote]

You are clueless. Wait after March of your child's senior year to give this board a conclusion.[/quote]

+1 the PP is clueless if they think Rice Duke Northwestern admits are not all hooked. And Chicago would need to be ED plus high rigor - high GPA - high test scores. [/quote]

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