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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet the public school applicants will continue to trend down, especially at the elite, $55k schools.

[b]The word is increasingly out that college admissions for a smart but unhooked kid are better from DCPS than they are for the same kid at Sidwell, NCS, etc. [/b] [b]Plus you have to work your a$$ off through all of high school at these privates. [/b] I had kids come from DCPS and this is definitely what people are talking about and coming to realize in mass.  These are close communities, neighborhoods and communities--word travels.

STJ is sort of it's own animal--it will always get a bunch of families who are skittish about Jackson Reed and figure that paying under $23k for the guarantee of order in the classroom is worth it.  Interestingly, some of these kids end up transferring out to JR later in high school. [/quote]

LOL, so you really think a college is going to have preference for a public school kid who coasted through HS vs a private school kid who "works his a$$ off through all of high school."  Colleges know that kids coming out of schools like Sidwell are significantly more prepared for the rigors of college.  Sorry, but your your statement is not very convincing at all.[/quote]

Actually, yes. A lot of private school parents are delusional about how the modern world of college admissions works. Elite colleges don't want to be filled with $55k/year prep school kids. They view your child's STA/NCS/Sidwell education as a marker of "privilege" (read: bad). They would much rather admit the low-income, child of a single mother J-R student than 3.9 GPA Sidwell kid.

Anyone who has gone through this process knows that you will get much better results being in the top 5% of the J-R graduating class than in the top 50% of an elite private school. This is largely because universities cap the number of students they admit per high school, and the elite privates are filled with legacies, VIPs, donor children, etc. There's no way a regular kids is competing with that, no matter how good their grades are.[/quote]

More fan fiction.

If you think that elite colleges want to fill their classes with poor, high achieving students, then you don’t understand that college is a business. These colleges would also cease to be “elite.”

Despite what you’ve heard, there’s nothing new under the sun. These colleges will continue to favor the wealthy and well-connected for admissions purposes. If you don’t believe me, check the percentages of top public vs. top private students heading to top 20 colleges. [/quote]

The kids from Big 3 elite schools going to the T10 colleges usually are legacy, VIPs, and children of donors. The typical kid with affluent parents usually doesn't have the same admissions outcomes. The Big 3 kids who make it into an Ivy, especially HYPSM, without hooks, are insanely well-qualified and have perfect grades along with insanely impressive extracurricular accomplishments such as journal publications, national awards, etc. These kids would have gotten the same college results from anywhere.

If your kid is just a standard Lisa Simpson-esque overachiever, they will likely have worse college results from a Big 3 school than being the superstar at their public school. Applicants are judged directly against their competition within the school.

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There are always going to be kids who don’t go to top 20 schools. But 20 kids out of a class of 100 is impressive. Much more so than 20 kids out of a class of 500. And this is how it’s going for private vs public. I know math is hard for you. [/quote]

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