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[quote=Anonymous]I’m in ny so here the top public schools do great. Like Stuy. Problem is most colleges won’t take 30 kids from Stuy (some do) so bottom half of class have a tough time. And Stuy is tough to get grades in mid 90s

But anything past top 15 high schools (we have 400) not so much. You can retake tests, get extra credit. Lots of kids w 4.0s who don’t crack 1300 on SAT. On plus side, majority of class is urm or first gen or both. Have an interesting EC and go TO and it can word, just need to have the social capital to understand the game.

Privates run the gamut. The TT kids clean up. But it’s a very grade deflation, no retakes, no extra credit, total grind. 3.8 kids do just fine, Top 30 uni or top 12 LACs. 3.6 kids can get into places that are “fine” for this crowd. Like Kenyon

Then there are T2/T3 places that have a lot to trade inflation. Lots of 3.95s. With paid counseling they get into haverfords.

College regional officers were wiped out by Covid. Nobody wants to stand at a table in high school cafeterias, getting 50k and counting on those Marriott points. So how much these schools “know” your public or private is much reduced.  You can work that to your advantage in some public’s. And some privates don’t do as well with the UGAs etc because those are the schools with the huge application load and without the expertise. [/quote]

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