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[quote=Anonymous][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]
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.  [/quote]

That's just stupid.  Public schools have to take kids.  If you look at the top 50 entering Whitman or Churchill in 9th grade, the outcome at 12th grade will be about the same as the top 50 entering a private.  [/quote]
Proof?[/quote]

Not the PP, but Whitman had 25 NMSFs last year, 21 this year (the cut off went up again, they also had 59 commended scholars).  About 20-25 went to ivies last year and another big group to SLACs and other selective schools like Stanford, too soon to tell for this year of course.  So I do think the top 100 are comparable to the top 100 at a private school (if not actually a little deeper since in a private school class of 100 you will probably have 10-15 who may be lifers or children or alums or whatever who aren't quite the same caliber).  I will say that Whitman has a large group (over half the grade) applying to UMD - including many of the top students.  You don't typically see that in private schools.  So there is a bit more of a public bias even at Whitman.  I don't know about Churchill but assume it's pretty comparable.

OP - if you both went to ivies and your kid is an academic superstar then either public or private will be fine.  Ultimately the first screen is grades and SAT scores - if the kid doesn't have both then it may not matter what school he's in (unless he's an awesome athlete of course).[/quote]

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