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[quote=Anonymous]Something as simple as an 8th grade trip will help some families stay. 
My kid left a public that has an 8th grade language trip after 7th grade and my kid was loathe to leave for this reason.  We almost put pause on the entire thing for this reason.

Also, as time marches on it will continue to be clear that attending a Big3 does not have the value for college admissions that it once did.  I know that last year the admits from Bullis  (for example) were pretty much just as impressive as those from NCS or Sidwell, especially for unconnected kids.  And yet the NCS and Sidwell kids probably worked 4 times as hard in high school (with an often unreasonable amount of work).  Who wants to go through this slog when it isn't necessary?  You will have the prestige chasers who still put their kids through it but perhaps an increasing number of families will look elsewhere when there is really no end advantage (and frankly a disadvantage) unless your kid will end up in the top 10% of the Big3 (an almost impossible feat in our experience).

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