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[quote=Anonymous][quote] You just had unrealistic expectations from the beginning. The locus of Ivy-bound kids in this area has always been TJ and the MCPS magnets/RMIB. If your kid wasn’t going to get in there, they weren’t going to get into an Ivy. When you pay for private school you do not actually pay for the strivers and the “smartest” - those kids have always been in public. What you pay for is getting into a namebrand SLAC of some sort, especially if your child is less impressive. In some ways your kid working hard at the private was a waste. They could have coasted with the same result - that is actually what you paid for![/quote]

This is complete bs.  The smartest kids have definitely never “always been in public,” any more than they have always been in private.  Most kids don’t want or try to get into TJ or RM, it has nothing to do with not being able to get in.  Your scenario is a fantasy, since 30-40% of Ivy classes come from private.  And what private school families pay for is a rigorous curriculum with smaller classes that teach students how (not what) to think and write, not college admissions.  [/quote]

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