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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is doing great in the MS and received similarly good grades in the LS. I’m considering transferring her out to a less rigorous school for Hs so she can be the top dog at a less demanding school. Has anyone tried this?[/quote]

Where would that be?  At a mediocre private maybe.  At any decent public school, there will be hundreds of students per grade, and the top students will be just as bright as at NCS, but there will be more of them.  And there will be plenty of AP and IB classes offered, so if the kid is struggling with "college level coursework" they're not going to avoid

it by going elsewhere.[/quote]

Maybe the pressure isn’t just academic. Maybe the girl is going to do better if there are a range of kids of different talents and traits , not like Ncs girls where everyone lives in a gorgeous house and look like walks off a perfect teen magazine that has beautiful skin and wonderful long hair.[/quote]

I hate to break it to you but there are girls with beautiful skin and wonderful long hair at public schools too.  But you are right that the students are more likely to have mansions in NCS than in public if that’s the source of the student’s “pressure.”[/quote]

Of course.  But I think the standard for what counts as an ideal student might be more uniform at schools like NCS than at public or less-elite private schools. 
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