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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in his senior year at GDS and the college application process here is very intense. People get very uncomfortable and offended if you ask where their kid is thinking of applying. Students tend to not want to share this information with each other.

My neighbor's children all go to Jackson-Reed and all the kids openly share where they are applying, their struggles on the SAT and often laugh about it together. There seems to be far less competition and anxiety over the college process at JRHS than at GDS and other top private schools.

I also notice many Jackson-Reed families have no issue saying "yeah, my kid got rejected by all their top choices but will be attending Penn State and is excited about it." Families at GDS would be mortified to say anything like that.

I wanted to know why do students from each of these environments have such disparate approaches to college applications? [/quote]

Frankly,  it's no one else's business. Focus on your kid.[/quote]

This is OP. I know it's not my business. I didn't need you to tell me this. I am asking about why are the cultures different between school types. [/quote]

but they are not different. Our public and private have identical cultures on this issue. Why do you assume your experience is true across the board?[/quote]

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