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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some perspective here parents.  Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but "good student" "outstanding student" is meaningless.  Most of you don't know what top academics are.  For example, my kids went freshman year to a private HS instead of the giant but excellent public HS.  Before HS , they were in gifted programs.  So they get to HS and honors classes were a JOKE.  This is a good school - but really, they don't even offer AP physics.  The public schools are excellent in our area and people send their kids to this school so their kid can make the team, be in the play, cheer.....be somebody.   A lot of the IB classes - not that tough either.

You want tough, show me a kid that is taking AP calc AB and BC , multivariable calc, both AP physics classes, AP literature and also pouring hours and hours into sports.  Show me a BIG SCHOOL varsity player - say 500 or more in graduating class that is taking classes that would be accepted at Perdue for Engineering.

In short - academically , most parents of kids that think their kid is a great student may not realize their kid is just good in the academic rec league!!!   Private schools are great for giving the allusion of academic greatness.  ACT of 32 or so and varsity football or baseball at a big public school.  I'm sure they are out there.  Max Scherzer got a 36 on his ACT math section.  But these kids are rare, and yes, huge hours are needed to excel at the big scho
ol varsity level and these kids 99/100 times aren't nailing classes that would qualify in an accredited engineering program.  [/quote]

Hmmmmm...

We left a “great public school system” precisely because if the serious grade inflation.  Straight As in top classes while doing almost nothing.  It’s why there are 35 valedictorians.

Private is much more rigorous and goes beyond teach to the test...and they actually can write when they finish HS—something public is abysmal at teaching.

We are D1 athletes that could choose academic scholarship which provided more $ than the measly soccer one.[/quote]

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