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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]went to MoCo public school - and graduated summa from an Ivy.  More kids at my Ivy from my public that year than from the Big 3 combined.  And None of the Big 3 kids were magna, or summa.  [/quote]

I call BS on this.  If you are referring to the most selective Ivy's, then the matriculation stats you site don't hold up (see link).  Using this same year as a comparison, SFS had a similar number of acceptances to H/Y/P alone as the combined acceptances on this list.  Of course, in certain cases there were multiple acceptances for the same student, for both the publics and the privates.  And when you eliminate the magnet school from the list, it isn't even close to the number from SFS, NCS, STA, GDS (which combined have a graduating class about the same size as one of the listed publics).

http://bethesdamagazine.com/College_Chart.pdf[/quote]

Actually I think this was true for DD's year - that particular top Ivy took a ton of MCPS kids just a few years ago. Note that PP qualified by saying "that year." There really is a lot of volatility in acceptances and one year of Bethesda Mag isn't the final word.

As another PP said, what matters is percentages. But the story there is really hard to disentangle, given the role played by legacy status, athletic recruitment, big donations, and yes, whether your ability to pay $40k/year telegraphs to colleges that your kid will be full pay. Were all the kids accepted last year by Yale from Whitman double legacies? Who the heck knows, and it's pointless to speculate.

All we can say for sure is that, if Yale took 5 kids from Sidwell/Whitman/St Anselm last year, the number will probably be different this year. We can also say that 5 kids going to Yale from a given area high school won't translate to a 5% shot (assuming class size of 100) at Yale for your kid (unless you and DH are Yale grads or high-level politicians or big, as in really big, donors).[/quote]

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