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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you have a question?[/quote]

Do you see a difference in college admissions from the private schools compared to any decent public in MD/VA?

I am trying to convince my DH to go for private school. 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]

You should both do some reading about the changes in college admissions since you were in high school.  This is not anecdotal – the acceptance percentages for the most highly selective schools have gone down.  When I was in college in the early 80s, there were something like 10 international students in my whole class.  Now this same undergraduate institution gets literally thousands of international applications, many of them superb.  Any parent assuming the landscape is the same as when they were applying to college, will most likely be very surprised and disappointed.  Save yourself the angst, and get educated about the college admissions landscape.[/quote]

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