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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is silly and arbitrary. It relies purely on test scores - the SAT for Presidential Scholar candidates and the scores themselves, PSAT for National Merit - which isn't surprising for a test prep business.

Even worse, the data are unreliable. The privates do not report their SAT scores. The public schools claim different/higher scores than the College Board. The ranking table includes a percentage for the average number of students who go on to a top 15% college, but it doesn't include the number in the ranking. This number is not reported by any of the schools, so there is no reason to believe that it is particularly accurate.  Even sillier, the top 15 college list doesn't include Stanford or Columbia.

Please don't use junk lists like this to figure out which private schools make sense for your child. Visit and talk to other parents. [/quote]

plus the list doesnt account for all the legacies graduating from these schools to go on to pay full rides at mommy and daddys alma maters.[/quote]

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