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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of these schools can fully prepare you for a STEM college major at top schools, full stop. The people saying otherwise are just trying to justify their tuition. I went to public school and didn’t take anything beyond Calc in high school and was totally fine. The focus on acceleration at all costs by some parents actually means the students don’t really have the basics down and are forced to retake courses in college anyways. [/quote]

This minus the justification of tuition part. I think there are many reasons why people get wrapped up in comparing multivariate vs number theory in high school.

I would choose the school with the best social environment for your son, the one where he’ll have a good group of supportive friends and not a lot of harassment or bullying. For me, this meant looking at a class-by-class basis. I talked to over 40 parents the year my child was applying at many different schools. We found a school with a very small number of kids in the advanced science and math classes (not to mention clubs) where the kids in that class were tight-knit. We see this as a risk, because one fight could lead to a miserable experience, but so far it has been great.[/quote]

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