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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m telling you, Burke, Field, SAES and a few others are the ultimate life hacks. If your kid can do well at these schools - with very little homework or intense pressure - they will get into the same colleges as the kids at “Big 5” schools.  You’ll see sh**ty responses to this, but don’t let it alter you. Check out the schools that everyone disdains. Then, look at the universities that the top 10-15% of those classes get into. Then, determine if your kid could be in the top 15%. And if the answer is yes, you’ve figured out a complex problem and given your kids the gift of normalcy.

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But can you get the same level of rigor/learning at these schools that you can at the higher-pressure schools, with the same level of preparedness for these colleges?  Or is it not as good an education?

This is kind of a selfish question as my kid is torn between one of these schools and one of the high-pressure schools and we have to decide in 2 days...[/quote]

Compare course catalogs and map out a possible path for your student. Can you achieve the likely course path at both schools?

Are you ok with them being in the middle of the pack or would you rather they are in a strong cohort at the top of a class?

The universal message on and off DCUM is that the strongest students at these schools get into great colleges and do well at those schools.

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