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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At most “good” public and private schools, the top 10% gets into the very competitive, elite colleges.  By “good” meaning the schools like the W high schools and private schools like Sidwell.   The only private and public schools that send a greater percentage to kids that are not top 10%, are magnets like TJ, usually the top 20%, and top private schools like Andover, top 20%.   DC private schools including the Big3 are nowhere on par.

So kids with sub 3.0 gpas from the Big 3 go to the same colleges that the other 90% go including the 90% from public.[/quote]

My older was in a big 3 and graduated [b]a few years ago.[/b] More than half the kids in the grade went to IVY/NESCAC/Stanford/Northwestern/Chicago/topSLAC.

The rest went to places like NYU, Tulane and that tier. There were a handful that went to schools that some here would scoff at, smaller PA/OH SLACs but they were full ride athletes. There literally wasn't a school on the grade-wide list that I would shake my head and say "why go to 'big3' and end up there" - not a single one.[/quote]

You need to specify what is “a few years ago.”  It likely isn’t in the past five years.  And if you account for SES, the sub 3.0 kids from the Big 3 go to the same colleges as the sub 3.0 kids from the W pyramid.[/quote]

So you're telling me that the sub 3.0 kids from Whitman are going to Tulane, Richmond, Grinnell?[/quote]

The sub 3.0 kids from the big 3 aren’t going there either nowadays[/quote]

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