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I think there are ways to catch up, but I get the point that the poster was making...the idea that your child deserves to be in the top just by virtue of going to a certain school for elementary is not realistic. Life doesn't work that way yet on this board the entitlement is real, and people tend to say "I'd rather move to a good public school" or, "my child will just go to BT" and they assume that the same issues of their child not being in the top tier won't persist, and if they just move to public school their kid will get into a top Ivy. That presumption is not correct.[/quote]

I think the issue is money. If the kid isn't going to be in the top tier of students don't spend 300k on high school. I've had to grapple with this question this year of do I really want to spend that kind of money in the current world we're living in and then in 4 years my kid gets into BU or Wesleyan where we will also probably be paying full tuition. Those or both great schools but you don't need to have spent the money at Packer or FS to get in. Kids get into great colleges from all sorts of schools. The SHSHAT schools are a hard sell because with the exception of Lehman and BK Latin they are all huge.  I think you have to be a really excellent, disciplined and self-directed student to thrive at Stuy, BxSc or BT. [/quote]

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