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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Best NE boarding schools get tons of kids into the Ivies, most of whom are not legacies. A lot are recruited athletes, though most are neither. [/quote]

My daughter goes to one of these schools and this is mostly true. But the downside is for every 4 Yale acceptances (for example) [b]there are 20-30 qualified applicants who would have been first in their classes at their public schools[/b] and likely had a better chance of admission if not compared to their BS classmates. Every year the director of college guidance emphasizes that while their matriculations look great, the majority of seniors were still disappointed. [/quote]

If you selected the 50 highest performing students from the best private schools worldwide and dropped them into the Top 50 public high schools in America, you would be extremely fortunate if you produced more than 2 - 3 valedictorians. There's a distorted view of private vs. public education that exists for a lot of private school parents in this DCUM community. At the very high end, an easily defensible argument can be made that the students at the Top 50 public high schools in America are significantly more academically accomplished and capable than any of their contemporaries from the very best private high schools.

Having a distinct advantage over an average or below average public high school (perhaps the alternative for most of your daughter's classmates) is VERY different than competing with students from a high performing public high school - the kind of school where over 10 - 15% of a 500 student class is NMSF/F, and nearly 50% meet the Commended Scholar threshold in a high performing state, by way of example.[/quote]

My daughter’s BS acceptance rate hovers at 12% and the majority of applicants are academically qualified. My daughter was first in her class of 650 in middle school and would have gone on to a top performing public high school but instead chose  the boarding school for the small class size (and the full financial aid). [/quote]

Consider that very few top-ranked kids in middle school go to boarding school, but continue on with their public HS.

My kid, who has always been a 99th percentile kid, works hard to maintain his As in the advanced math/science track at his PS. There are a few kids with him on this track who sit in the back of the class and are on their phones, play chess, etc, and still pull 100s on tests in the science class. They are either taking MV calc or other  post-MV calc math as sophomores.

These kids do not need boarding school. The legacy kid who is not at an academic level with these kids (or even my kid) considers boarding school to give them an edge for Princeton because the athletic avenue is their best bet.[/quote]

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