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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much did college admissions weigh in your original decision to send your child to a Big 3? Many start far before high school, so the reasons for attending the school were not mostly about a great college, were they? [/quote]

I think maybe you are missing the bigger picture.  Many parents I know having their kids start K at least at SFS are doing it because they are hearing horror stories of kids not getting accepted in 6th or 9th grade...so they are sucking it up now under the theory it is easier at K (don't know if that is true).  They are UMC..but they definitely have better things they would like to spend $50k+ than private school.  I get it...no tears for them.  Point is they don't necessarily have super strong ideas that their kids need expensive private school for elementary school.

If the HOS of Sidwell were to now come up to them, ask them where they went to college (they say State U)...maybe ask if either parent played a college sport (or higher)...and then were to tell them that 98% of kids from SFS accepted to a top school were either legacy, athletes or URM...and if college admissions remains the way it is today, your kid has little to no chance at those schools...well, I bet many of those parents might take a beat.  If HOS then said, we have kids getting rejected EA from UMD or Auburn...then they may really take a beat.

Not saying they will go public school either...but maybe they find the $25k/year private because the perceived benefit of exclusive college admissions from the Big3 doesn't seem to exist.

So, I get it...13 years from now is an eternity.  Admissions could definitely change and there is the belief that the college-age cohort is peaking right now and will be much lower in 13 years.  So, yes things can change.

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