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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH actually attended a very average high school but the honors students (~25) all got into ivy leagues or similar. He was looking at the admissions from some of the privates around here and the number of acceptances to top colleges was worse than his very average high school.[/quote]
[b]Tell your DH to compare the % of students going to Ivy colleges from local private schools versus local public school.  He'll soon discover the difference. [/b] [/quote]

Don't do this, because the comparison is stupid, as PP well knows. Many kids from area publics aren't planning to go to college, or they are in that middle position between qualifying for FA (about $50k household income) and being able to pay the full $60k/year at an Ivy (none of which give merit aid). So many public school kids are not even considering Ivies, instead they are looking at state schools or 2nd-tier privates that will give them lots of merit aid. This might be a useful comparison if we could compare private school exmissions to the public school kids who can afford at least $30k/year (what the private school kids are already paying) in tuition, but we don't have that data.

For the PPs with tons of classmates going to Ivies, times have really changed since our day. Most Ivies take fewer than 10% of applicants, and they take an even smaller percent of unhooked kids.

Send your kid to private school for the small class sizes, and for better art, music, science, social studies and PE in elementary school. As for Ivies, some here think that private schools do a better job motivating the middle-of-the-road kid and then championing him with the college admissions teams in their Rolodexes, but there's no hard evidence to say one way or another. [/quote]

Actually, HHIs under $60k will qualify for significant FA at HYP. [/quote]

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