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[quote=Anonymous]However you spin it, there's an element of truth to it.

I wasn't sent to private school and wouldn't send children to private schools solely for college admissions. But it was sort of expected that the school would help you get into a "good" college, either through the quality of the education as training for the rigors of a good college, or that the school's name would help provide a bump in admissions. I do remember reading college admissions books back in the 1990s and there was frank discussions from actual admissions officers about how this applicant went to a good private in a midtier city and they liked students from that school so she was admitted.

The problem is that the private schools are *so expensive* nowadays that if they don't help you get a bit of an advantage anymore, it's one more strike against going to private schools. In the DMV, many of the old private school families have already been priced out. If the perception emerges that it's a strike against you being a student from a private school in the equity-mad world of progressive admissions officers, it's a weird turnabout from the past, fair or not, and does hurt private schools in the long run. [/quote]

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