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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not in the DC area but from an area with a similar competitive private school landscape, also with grade inflated public schools, and as far as I can tell the privates are doing just fine in college admissions even for unhooked kids. Is this a DC thing? [/quote]

It’s a DC thing to be perpetually unhappy with your school choice and claim that other choices are messing up your own. The “public school kids are cheating private school kids out of college admissions” is a fun new twist, though. [/quote]

It's so fun to see these parents who have spent $1 million on their precious Larla's education only to have them end up at worse colleges than the SWW and JR kids. Probably very healthy for the kids though. In the real world at last![/quote]

That’s interesting. I really think it’s impossible to describe why this is the right choice no matter what unless you’ve experienced it. It’s a lifelong effect provided you’re at one the absolute top privates. As for the colleges, remember that the billionaire kids, royalty kids and celebrity kids don’t go to U Penn or whatever. Nature of life and jobs is changing. Grind and grit are not what they used to be.  I don’t know, what’s a million these days anyway? A started home in fat out exurbs?[/quote]

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