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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend just had his son accepted ED at Colorado College with a B- GPA and very high SAT scores.  A school out west like that might be a good choice.  I think it really depends on your high school.  My son's private really does not award very many A's but seems to place kids very well despite nearly no 4.0s.
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The schools out west won't be able to distinguish the top privates, from the lesser privates or top publics. To the average college counselor out West, Whitman looks the same or better than HOLTON, Sidwell or NCS.

The schools that most understand and appreciate the top private schools are the Eastern SLACS [/quote]

Well, are you so sure there is really such a difference in the education at a "top private" from a "lesser private" in DC and that colleges -- even locally -- really think that?   As I understand it, in what you call "a top private" many of the students are in very rigorous classes so those that do well are recognized as having done something special, as opposed to those that have not done as well.   In a "lesser private," there are often different tracks of classes -- so those who do well in the AP or most accelerated classes may be seen as on the same footing as the kids in the "top private" for evaluating the rigor of the classes.  The standardized tests play the role of equalizers -- my DC in our "lesser private" managed to get the same high scores on SAT IIs and AP exams that some -- but not most - of DC's friends got at what you may call "top privates" and will see them next fall in the same absurdly selective university.  I guess for students who graduated a top private that would be called a "top university" - whereas for our DC that would be called a "lesser university" -- even though it is the exact same school.

I guess it just proves the old adage -- "less is more."

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