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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wasn’t saying is private school worth it - I was asking is it worth it to send your child to the private schools that pride themselves on being ‘so hard’ ie hours and hours of homework Sidwell, STA, NCS, Visitation when kids from those and the kids from other private schools seem to be ending up at the same colleges. [/quote]

The reality is that [b]these schools are not that hard for the brightest kids.  They're not doing "hours and hours" of homework[/b].  My kid is at Sidwell/STA/NCS (rising senior in top classes at one of these schools) and does maybe an hour of homework per night and is in the top 10% or so in the class.  He/she is really, really smart--photographic memory, writes extraordinarily well, etc.  AND there are kids in the class who are even smarter and excel while doing even less work.  They are taking the very top classes and they are breezing through.  The issue is that there are many kids who came in when they were in PK or 7th grade or even 9th and the school is not a great fit academically but they have friends in the class or siblings at the school or their parents like the prestige or whatever and so they stay but have to work exceedingly hard to keep up.

Not everyone at Sidwell/STA/NCS is slaving away for hours and hours.  If a kid is, it's frankly probably not the best fit.  [/quote]

Actually - this isn't true.  Even the brightest kids we knew who went to Ivy schools (not on legacy status) were putting in very late nights to get those rare very high grades. Maybe your kid is brilliant though.[/quote]

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