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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ is the tops.  Other schools are sending 1 , 2, 3, maybe 6 kids to Harvard every year?  Try 12-20 from TJ admitted.  (Ditto for Stanford, MIT, etc.)  Don't kid yourselves, if you can get into and excel at TJ, it blows away the top 3 for college placement. [/quote]

Blair had 53 national merit scholarship finalists last year, in a class of what, 700?  That's 1 in every 14 kids.  How many privates can say that, even after all the Kaplan classes?  Richard Montgomery had 28, in a class of 500, which is about 6%.  And as a PP said, many of the kids in these schools don't intend to go to college and didn't take the SATs.  These schools also have Harvard admits, although not as many as TJ.[/quote]
STA/NCS/Sidwell routinely top 10% for NMSFs.  See the chart that you can find under SAM2's private school admissions stickies.  If I recall, TJ tops 20%, which is stunning.  They only admit in 9th grade, which helps, and of course don't do the legacy or jock admit thing.  They are re-focusing on math/science though so it wouldn't really fit for the smart humanities only kid.[/quote]

it's true that the comparison of TJ to Sidwell/NCS is s bit unfair, for the reasons you've described.  But it's also true that it's unfair to compare Sidwell/NCS to publics, which everybody here keeps doing, for the same reasons.  Probably 100% of Sidwell/NCS kids take the SATs and go to college, while many don't at public.  Like PPs have said above, it's a cohort issue.  You need to make the comparison with the honors/AP/IB kids at publics, who are the peer group you kid would be taking classes with.  (Not that the non-college kids are dumb, either, they just don't take the SATs and this lowers the pct of NMSSF in the class.)

But I'm out of here.  The whole line of thinking being developed here, that private kids are smarter than public kids, is repugnant to me.  Carry on as you were.[/quote]

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