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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ds had a b average from a mom big 3 private and a 30. Got into both unass and Skidmore among many others. B students from big 3 with 31 ish scores will get into many of the schools mentioned. Ignore all stats on gpa or class rank other than your school’s Naviance and talk to your counselor. [/quote]

EXACTLY! School context really matters here, and solid Bs at Sidwell/STA/NCS/GDS is not the same as solid Bs at my kid's public school.

The kid should continue to discuss target schools with the counselor and applying to 6-7, not 3.[/quote]

Many of these kids would be A students in public. The top DC private schools are very demanding.[/quote]

Baloney re these kids being A students at public.[/quote]

You are wrong. You should see the level of work that is asked of 8th graders at my kid’s school. As are a dime a dozen in public but much harder to get in these schools.[/quote]

"Public" school is not a monolith, and what I've seen from kids in Big 3 schools, their curriculum is not very different from the curriculum of a high quality public school (which has plenty of kids of highly educated professionals, who happened not to go the hedge fund/law firm partner route).  The only difference is the classes are smaller and the kids have a lot more resources across the board.[/quote]

Really?  How can you say that in this day & age, when public schools have gone down the tube? When basic things like spelling and grammar have been almost discontinued? When teachers have so many students they don’t have time to grade homework or mark up and edit essays? Kids arrive at high school completely lacking a strong foundation in social studies, literature and science While private school students have been building it since first grade. [/quote]

Interesting take on public school. Most of my neighbors’ kids go to public schools (NW DC) and somehow they seem quite literate. One kid on the street went to Wilson and is graduating from an Ivy this spring. She seems to have done well. Let’s not stereotype public school in such an extreme fashion [/quote]

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