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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, as a non-full pay family, your son will need something that makes him really stand out to be accepted by a private school and given financial aid.  There are plenty of families who can pay full freight who are competing to get in at the better privates.  Also, unless you're an exceptional URM, most school will only offer 15-25% financial aid.

If you are an URM, that makes a big difference.  A strong URM candidate might get more like 60-80% financial aid.

If your son is White or Asian, you will be considered overrepresented at most private schools.

You don't say why you want your son to transfer to private, but unless your son has a particular need or interest that can't be met in public school MoCo's magnet track could be a more affordable option.

What's your motivation for wanting to switch to private? [/quote]

[b]MoCo's magnet track accepts a far lower percentage of applicants than the most selective private schools.[/b] This year the middle school magnet was by lottery for students who qualified.  My kid qualified for the lottery but his name was not selected.  There isn't another chance at 7th or 8th.

My kid's current educational situation won't be an option after 6th, and so we're looking at all options.

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I highly doubt that.  The most selective private schools accept about 7% of their applicants.  Just goes to show how little you know about the private school world. [/quote]

Unless you’ve had first had experience working in the admissions offices of multiple “selective” schools locally, I don’t know how you could possibly know that.  I am skeptical that admissions rates to any local school is single digits.  And repeat after me: selective does NOT equate to quality of education.  Selectivity equates to ego inflation.  [/quote]
TJ is 1%[/quote]

I doubt it.   It’s a magnet school that allocates seats to the top 1.5% of 8th graders at public middle schools.  That is not the same as rejecting 98.5% because nowhere near every public 8th grader applies.  The acceptance rate at TJ from public is about 15-18% and from private is about 15-25% in any given year. The Big 3 MIGHT have admissions rates around 10%, but that is a function of their physical proximity to each other and a large number of people apply to all of them.  But no one outside the schools actually knows, since they keep it a secret (and have no incentive to be transparent because they benefit greatly from the perception they are selective).  Selective can be an indicator of quality, but it’s not necessarily so. Based on SAT scores and NMS results, there are other “non-Big 3” schools that produce students that are just as strong.[/quote]

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