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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just one anecdote.

My kids went to a top NOVA public generally considered a peer of McLean.

My youngest had a BFF.  She had a lot going on.  Great kid.  Her parents switched the kid to private after middle school, enrolling her in a "Big Three" (after not getting into TJ).  She stayed friends with my kid and the other neighborhood kids though.  Just a great kid.

My kid ended up at UVA.  The BFF also ended up at UVA after getting waitlisted and ultimately denied by her dream school, a "lower" Ivy.

I'm convinced she would have gotten into her dream school had she just stayed in public.  There's no doubt she would have been the cream of the crop.

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Agree. I have seen some really tremendous public school kids switch to private and get 'poor-ish' outcomes relative to what they and their parents were expecting. I will guess/hope they come to college better prepared but it doesn't seem to give one a leg up in admissions. [/quote]

Yep.  And to be clear, my kid really did hit the jackpot getting into UVA. She's a smart kid and a great kid and UVA is an excellent school.  But for her UVA was the ceiling reasonably speaking.  It wasn't for her BFF, who was a step ahead of her academically.  She would have stood out more at the public school for sure, and would have been one of the dozen or so kids at the school who "do better" than UVA.  [/quote]

I do think a lot of the competition EDs to UVA at public. My oldest is only a junior and he doesn’t want to go to UVA. A large part of the strong students will ED to UVA. Hoping DS has a strong college outcome. [/quote]

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