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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child is bright and you want them to have a great education and are willing to support it in any way possible PLEASE choose your public school.  SSSAS and all the other second tier private schools are a waste of money unless you are so rich it doesn't matter what your child ends up doing in life or your child is a genius and the private school is going to pay him to go there. Well even in that case your child will have limits put on his education that no public school could match. ASK how many students are taking AP classes in each grade: 9th, 10th, and 11th and what the requirements are to take them. Be aware that colleges will not care that your child took classes as hard as APs or honors when it comes to GPA because second tier private schools do not get that type of consideration in the admissions process. ASK how many students graduate having taken Calculus. ASK how many graduates pursue college majors outside of liberal arts. Do not fool yourself into thinking that private school teachers are as well trained as those in public school. That is not the case and if your child is not a favored student at a second tier private school be aware they will get the worst of those. AND ASK how many of the private school's  graduates who are accepted to ivy league and the most selective colleges are athletic recruits, legacies, or minorities. ASK for a chart showing GPA correlation with SAT score. ASK for a plot of the SAT scores of the most recent graduating classes. Public schools publish all of this information and you cannot make an informed choice about a school without it. You are going to spend $120k for high school so this is important. Follow this advice you won't be sorry.[/quote]

This is terribly misinformed.  A very small fraction of kids go ivy.  That is true of all schools.  SSSAS and burgundy and Browne all work hard to instill a love of learning, stress importance of character and compassion, and foster intellectual curiosity.  That is what I am paying for.  If those things important to you, I would consider all three of these schools.  They have different cultures, but I think all share some common and wonderful traits.  [/quote]

I agree.  School is about so much more than just the numbers.  Most of us agree that you can get a great, quality education at most of the public schools in this area.  However, there is so much more to the experience than AP classes, Calculus and gaining admission into an ivy.  We all have different values and some of us value aspects of private schools that public schools don't or can't offer.  For us, that experience for our children is well worth the cost.  [/quote]

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