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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Y’all realize you’re all a bunch of weirdos, right?

That aside, the bottom line is that the “top 20” thing is bullshit.  Take out the Ivy League, which is truly a crapshoot for any student, and a very good student at just about any high school in this area - public or private - has a decent shot at the rest of the “top 20.”  You don’t think that many if not most of the UVA admits at Virginia publics couldn’t/didn’t get into a top 20 university or SLAC?  Of course they did/could.

And putting THAT aside, all of you strivers will learn soon enough that “top 20” is meaningless a decade down the line.  No one will care.  You won’t be able to distinguish your kids’ success or lack thereof on the basis of their college ranking.

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+1.  And what you’ve left out is that schools like Sidwell select students while public schools cannot.  So who can say whether the success of a student has anything to do with the school as opposed to what the student brought to the school with them in the first place?[/quote]

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