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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, when you are looking at lower schools, keep in mind that a lot of the high school students who go on to TT didn’t necessarily do lower school at these places, so it’s not a good metric for how good the lower school is. Brearley actually has a slot in the year book for kids who have been there the whole time and it’s sometime less than half the class. They say it’s because the girls go to boarding, etc, or want co-ed, but at least in the last few years, there are a lot of people who have left over who didn’t think they would and a lot of faculty and admin turnover. Some of those Harvard and Yale admits may be kids who came in middle whose lower school prep was elsewhere. Plus, a lot of the ones that start in K are people who tutor their kids to keep them in or red shirt their kids to give them an academic advantage. It’s just not a very good metric of the actual academic program — at least at Brearley, they don’t let parents see the ERB scores, so you have no idea how your kid is measuring up against other programs. For all you know, some of the girls who go on to succeed longterm just had really good tutors rather than a really good lower school education.[/quote]

Bitter Brearley Mom is back.  I knew it was you because you can't quote or format properly on this site.  Give it a rest.  I don't even know what it means that some girls left who didn't think they would.  How would you even know this?  And when did the girls who left actually not think they would leave?  Most make that decision in 8th grade, and then leave for 9th (and haven't even thought much about it in lower school or early middle).  I know because I have kids who have gone through it.

Also, my kids were there since K and have all the yearbooks, and the number of kids who do the full K-12 has remained relatively constant over the last decade plus.[/quote]

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