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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]went to MoCo public school - and graduated summa from an Ivy.  More kids at my Ivy from my public that year than from the Big 3 combined.  And None of the Big 3 kids were magna, or summa.  [/quote]

Number less important than percentage [/quote]

[b]That is such a myth on this site.[/b] You aren't competing with the kids who drop out of public school.[/quote]

What does that even mean? Of course numbers don't matter nearly as much as percentage when you are comparing college admissions--especially when you are looking at the tiny anecdata coming from one PP's college.

And, by the way, you prove my point, I think. Big 3s are college prep schools, and they tend to be much smaller in size than their public counterparts. It is expected that close to 100% of graduates of the Big-3 will go onto college. Public high schools are not prep schools. Although it is true that may of them, esp in affluent neighborhoods, send a large majority (90%?) onto college, the percentage is not as high as Big 3. [/quote]

+1. And of the public school kids who go to college, many aren't looking any further than the in-state school. Not everybody can afford $60k/year for an Ivy and federal aid tops out at household income of about $50k barring unusual circumstances. Many public school kids will apply in-state or to a second- or third-tier college with generous merit aid. (Please, don't let that idiot come on to point out that Harvard gives aid to households with income up to $150k. As if everybody should just get accepted to Harvard. No, Harvard isn't going to admit all qualified Northwood grads, and most of the other Ivies are much less generous.)[/quote]

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