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[quote=Anonymous]I'm honestly exhausted by the public school parents who come on here to tell us
1. How hard the W schools are 
2. Where Big 3 kids go.

As an actual Big 3 parent of 3 high schoolers, and one senior this year, one younger, one in public.  I will tell you the grade deflation is messing our kids up in terms of admissions. Yes 5 years a go a B average kid at a Big 3 could go to Hamilton, Bates, Tulane even Wisconsin. NOT this year.  The common App and Covid weirdness in terms of gap years act have wreaked havoc on admissions norms. Big 3 Kids are getting WL and rejected from places that used to be safeties. B students from Big 3 ARE well prepared and the colleges USED to get this but no more. It's reality.

And to the public parents who keep insisting the W's are "just as hard" as Big 3. We have one in public and it's simply not true. Not even close. However our public kid does less work and has better grades and will probably land at a better college than our kids in private. So there's that.[/quote]

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