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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because I'm not seeing better outcomes  for kids in parochial/private. My neice and her friends who were in private didn't get accepted at colleges that were better than kids in public. Why would I pay $25K a year for my kid to get accepted to Catholic University or Delaware? [/quote]

We had a babysitter who graduated from Visi and went to Clemson. My neighbor graduated from MCPS (non magnet) and went to Clemson also. 
This point is what keeps me from moving my kids. Can’t imaging paying a so much $$ for no guaranteed outcome, or at least the same outcome
You can get for free. 
That, and they’re 15 and 13. Might as well just finish out now. [/quote]

This! Our neighborhood is split between kids who go to private HS and kids who go to public in the DCC. The private and public school kids end up at many of the same schools and the few who’ve gone onto the truly elite schools and ivies are the public school kids. There are many factors here, but i just don’t know that privates offer the advantage I’d want them to in terms of college admission and success, particularly because so far my kids seem to be doing well at MCPS schools and have good teachers, peer group, and support. That said, when I visit private schools for games, etc I can totally see the appeal: gorgeous campuses, smaller classes, etc. 
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Just wait...you will learn just how badly your kids' grades are inflated.  It is a big problem and college admissions officers know about this.  Good luck.[/quote]
DP.. bethesda beat publishes a class of xxxx in MCPS  where they accepted for college.  Pretty impressive list.   Not arguing that there is no grade inflation in public schools, MCPS, but it's a mistake to say that MCPS students aren't going to elite univ, and not just the magnet kids.

of course, a lot of private school kids end up in elite univ too, but let's remember that a large % of admits in elite univ are based on legacies, which many private school parents are.

You'd have to compare like for like, and also recall that unlike private schools, public schools cannot choose who they admit as students.[/quote]
I would caution to read that data cautiously. From my HS experience from many years ago, there were 5 kids that were accepted to multiple Ivies and after that it was state flagship for the next tier, then state land grant, then state regional, then community college. There is most likely a very, very small cohort of hyper-competitive superstar students that are filling out most of the numbers for the most selective schools. That kid would be successful in any environment and is highly unlikely to be your kid. In short, it’s not 3 kids to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 2 to Brown. It’s just five kids collecting multiple Ivy acceptances like trophies. [/quote]
Sure, of course the vast majority of kids in a large public end up at nonelites.  But again, you have to compare like for like, and that means legacies vs legacies, URM vs URM, and UMC unhook vs UMC unhook.  Not the easiest comparison to find.  So, BB list is the next best list.[/quote]

No not easy at all, and as I mentioned earlier, this should not be the reason one enrolls their child in a private HS.  We are not legacy or hooked, and DS got into a top 20 (not an ivy, but top school).  He has friends who got into ivies who were athletes, but also friends who were bright and driven with no hooks.  We saw a very nice distribution among the top 50 schools in his high school.  I don't think you see that at MCPS as the PP points out.[/quote]

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