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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We attended a regional event recently for kids from the DMV of kids who’ve been accepted to a particular well know, good ranking college. There were about 15 kids there and all but mind came from private schools in the area. It was eye opening. All but 2 were definitely going there. 2 are waiting for more results, mine being one of them.

As you said: in 10 years all the kids will be at the same schools. [/quote]

Private school kids tend to have many benefits over public school kids, namely their parents who have a lot of resources and a desire to use them to further their children's education. In order to have those resources, the parents likely went to elite universities and conferred legacy status to their children. They also likely spent a lot of money on their children's extracurricular activities, like private lessons from a young age, and exposed their children to a variety of activities to explore their interests. It's very hard to evaluate the impact of private schools alone in college admissions.[/quote]

The school has a good ranking but not great. In the 50s according to USNAWR. I wasn’t clear enough, but what surprised me was that all but one of these private school kids were going to this good but not great school. [/quote]

I'm not surprised given how many kids from the "big 3" end up at the elite universities. I don't think the DMV area private schools have a reputation for being excellent like some of the elite private schools in NY/NE.[/quote]

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