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[quote=Anonymous]Odd fixation on STA, which has great college results for the area, although I would agree that nobody should pick a private school just for college admissions as it will depend overwhelmingly on your own child's talents, academic and otherwise.  Very bright kids come to St. Albans very bright to start with.  They do, however, get a great education there, as do kids at pretty much all the independent schools in this area as well as many of the excellent public schools we are fortunate to have as options.

From STA 2013, which had 76 in the graduating class, 29% of the class matriculated at one of the eight Ivies or Stanford.   Ivy alone is 27.6 %; Ivy plus Stanford plus  University of Chicago is 33% (or 32.8 percent if one does not believe in rounding up).  And that's not counting all the students going to highly related SLACs.

With numbers these small, the percentages change year from year -- no reason to think next year or the year after that would be the same.  And of course there is a benefit from legacy applicants, etc., which confounds the analysis.  But to suggest that St. Albans does poorly in college admissions is really silly.[/quote]

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