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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class.[/quote]
You are way underestimating how hard it is to be "the superstar" at a public high school, especially in the DC area.[/quote]

Enroll in Jackson-Reed. It's not hard at all to get a 4.5 GPA and carve a nice extracurricular niche in time for college admissions. [/quote]

Then why are there only about 8 or 9 students going to Ivies from JR this year? Out of a class of over 500.

Grades must not be the most important factor…especially at a high school with rampant grade inflation and assignment retakes. [/quote]

Jackson-Reed has far fewer students gunning for Ivies than the elite private schools. The quality of the student at J-R is also far more variable than an elite private, so the competition is easier. My point is that for a very accomplished student, the J-R applicant pool is much easier to stand out in. If you go to NCS, you will be competing with girls that have nationally-recognized researchers or writers, legacies, athletes, or VIP.

It's just so much easier for an academically-strong student to stand out at J-R than at NCS.[/quote]

Facts show top students percentage wise are less likely to go to an IVY or top 20 school than at top privates. Percentage wise they send a very very low number. They have 500 plus kids per grade. Many kids with high GPAs. [/quote]

My understanding of the data is a bit different, depending who you are. Let's assume two unhooked, academically advanced student from a UMC family. Student A attends private, student B attends private. Their respective HS both have ~50 students in their class who are aiming for a T20 college/uni. These students are competing for admission against other students across the country who are also well-qualified, and also competing directly against their peers at their HS (a 2nd or 3rd offer of admission at a given HS is a lower bar than the 7th or 8th... the college/unis avoid admitting too many from the same HS).

Student A is competing against a greater proportion of kids with hooks at their HS, and therefore their odds of admission are diminished within this cohort. The distribution of academic ability of students at their private HS is skewed in the "average and above" academic range, so their HS has a comparatively high cohort of T20-competitive kids, primarily because there is a lower denominator (few academically below-average kids).

Student B has a similar-sized cohort of local competition at their HS, but fewer of their peers have hooks. As such, his prospects amongst his peers are comparatively better than Student A, due to the more even playing field. The public HS has a much higher percentage of kids in the "average and below" academic range, which brings the HS's percentage of T20-admits way down, but that's immaterial for the ~50 students in the T20-competitive cohort. You could add another 200 non-T20-competitive kids to the school and bring that T20-admit percentage down even lower, but that has no impact on the prospects of T20-competitive cohort, as they are just competing amongst themselves (and nationally).[/quote]

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