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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“My guess is that the Wilson kids families are likely more elite (intellectually) than most private school families.“

The arrogance is shocking.[/quote]

Your guess is wrong. Perhaps about 10 families of the over 1500 at Wilson are more "elite" (whatever that really means), but the vast majority are not. For OP to cite about 10 kids out of over 600 as examples of great "placement" just shows what lack of critical thinking skills have been developed. Over 50% of kids graduating from schools like Sidwell, St. Albans, Potomac, NCS will go to schools like those she mentioned. Fewer than 1% from Wilson will. I'm a public school parent, by the way, but maintaining some common sense. [/quote]

By elite I mean as smart, if not smarter.  Yes, numerically the privates will send more kids to top schools because those privates by definition select for smart students with money to pay for the top schools.  But the top cohort at Wilson is just as good.

Again, professor kid-types don't go to private schools, because professors usually can't afford it (except for the very very top professors.)  Those are the top kids at Wilson.

But yeah, if OP wants to pay for her kid to be surrounding only by top and high-average kids, and no average or struggling kids, then private is worth it to her.  If she's concerned only about absolute performance, then it's not worth the money.  [/quote]

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