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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bumping post up. Really want to know what everyone thinks! Does TT really provide a lot of marginal benefit if kids are tracking to top quartile of class academically?[/quote]

It matters a TON, even at the better suburban schools.  For example last year at Chatham NJ - a solid upper middle class town with good school system.  It's often ranked in the top 10% of the state.  
High property taxes but good schools is the trade off.

Last year class had about 300 graduates.  Obviously not everyone is bound for 4 year college, but i think it's like 90%

1 matriculation into cornell, duke, princeton, yale, uChicago -  that's it for the top schools.  (they did have a vandy, ucla, berkley, georgetown, usc, unc)

so you have to grind hard as kid to get into a top school.   and it's not like this is a piece of cake - the parents are professional and all aiming for the same schools.

if the goal is BC, Tuffs, Tulane, Indiana, Middlebury, NYU, Wake Forest  - and those are good schools - then that's a different story - although still have to be in top 20% of the class.

College exmissions are MUCH harder in the burbs.  [/quote]

So I'm a bit conflicted here. I believe Princeton High School has better exmissions. 20 went to Princeton this year but supposedly only 4 to 5 without family affiliation at the university. 4 to Penn including 2 Wharton, 6 to Cornell and 7 to other Ivies, Duke or UChicago. So call it 37 Ivy+ exmits. I've heard anecdotally that only about 50 to 60 kids in a class of 300 are really gunning for the top colleges. So in this way it felt that getting into a good college would be actually LESS competitive than at a TT. Would be super curious to hear what the PHS alumn posting here has to say. [/quote]

No, it's nothing like private school.  Classes will be much larger and there won't be the same depth of offerings.  There is some small portion of the school that is low income.  However, there is also a large population of families associated with the university.  Most of these kids are either East or South Asian.  Then wealthy professional class families.  It isn't that you are competing with less talented kids -- wealthy suburban schools don't place as well as top tier or even second or third tier private schools.  The top level classes will be extremely cutthroat.  Prior poster is correct that the students going to Princeton U are almost all faculty kids.  Eighty  percent plus of the students are the honors college prep crowd.  Honestly can't think of a single way in which it would be better than a top tier private, as there is also a vibrant rich kid, work hard/play hard party crowd.[/quote]

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