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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my kid’s very best friend went to a Big 3 after another North Arlington elementary school and Williamsburg.  They met up again at UVA and rekindled the friendship that they still have to this day.  The parents assume the switch would get the kid into an Ivy.  It didn’t. Ironically, it very well may have had the kid stayed at Yorktown, where they likely would have been a superstar.

Oh well, it’s not my money.  [/quote]

You have told this story before on DCUM.  And I’ve taken the time to explain to you that your analysis is wrong. And yet you keep posting it.

Compare please the acceptance 
 data from the last five years at YHS and W&L (available from Arlington magazine) with posted acceptance data from Big3, using USNWR Top College (as an arbitrary ranking).  Giving EVERY benefit of the doubt to APS, eg, the kid who got into Yale wasn’t also the one who got into Georgetown, Big3 do significantly better by a very wide margin.  And the idea that Big3 are filled with legacy/athlete and APS is not is a complete fallacy; there are just as many in my view.

The idea that the kid would’ve been a superstar at YHS is nonsense.  There are way bright kids at YHS.  And my review is that private school helps you—not hurts you in the very top admissions game.  (See private schools representation at the top colleges).  Of course, if you are sending your kid to private for this (perhaps) advantage, you are a moron on a number of levels. [/quote]

All I can say is you don’t know the kid.  Definitely would have been a superstar.  [/quote]

You know you are belittling all the YHS kids when you say this right?  I’m sure whatever class your daughter was in already had kids going to Yale and Brown and Duke.  So I just don’t buy it.

Plus, even if she got “stuck” at UVA, she can at least write—a skill I see entirely lacking from the graduates of APS.  So, perhaps the money was misused by her family, but I don’t think your analysis is at all correct and want to disabuse other parents from your anectdotal nonsense.  [/quote]

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