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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid went to Princeton and Lawrenceville was a sort of feeder school for Princeton. If your child has great ECs , essays, and recommendations it might be an option.

I cannot believe some of the people posting here are so ignorant. Lawrenceville is prestigious and a much better Ivy feeder than any DMV day schools.[/quote]

Curious how someone hasn’t just looked at the numbers.  Can’t someone do this and actually tell us?  Most of these well-regarded private schools publish (brag) about their college results.  It may not be exactly apples to apples (say 5-year matriculation rates or some such versus 1 year) but usually it’s very do-able.  I’d be very surprised if Lawrenceville had matriculation that was meaningfully better than Sidwell/Cathedrals/GDS, but surprise me![/quote]

I don’t have a dog in this fight, so I don’t know why I’m spending time on this, but Lawrenceville is in a different league than any of those schools. L has 2x as many students than NCS, but:

In the past five years, it has had 157 kids go to ivies other than Cornell, or about 31 a year.  NCS over a four-year period had a max of 43, or 10 a year.

In five years, L had 9 go to MIT (1 for NCS), 20 to Duke (2-4 for NCS), 13 for Hopkins (vs. 1), 14 to WASP (vs. 3-5), 17 to Mich. (vs. 0).  The only schools where the numbers are arguably comparable are Georgetown and Stanford.

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