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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]@13:20:  Seriously?  If you want to raise the likelihood of sending your kids to an Ivy, and look forward to paying (by then) $75,000+ per year, then you should not be messing with a public school education, at all.  You've gotta get them on that hamster wheel starting at day one.  Harvard?  Hey, go look at some other stats:  pick out the best public grade schools, anywhere you choose (not magnet public schools, mind you) and see what percentage of the graduates go to an ivy.  I assure you, it ain't a lot.

But, if you want to make sure your kids get a quality education in college, and your kids are decent students to begin with, then Wilson or Hardy should be just fine.[/quote]

13:20 here.  I didn't raise the Harvard issue.  An earlier posted did.  That said, how many Wilson graduates attend Harvard?  How many of those came from Hardy?  Seriously, if Wilson is "just fine" then it should be sending its top students to Ivies.

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Top Wilson students go to top colleges. There is an old topic about it. Consider that college enrolling data for Wilson has two biases: 1) it refers to older cohorts. Lots has changed since when recently graduated kids entered the school; 2) a significant share of these kids are unable to afford the fee of top private colleges. So they apply conditional on financial support/scholarships. If they do not get it, they just opt for State colleges.

What I would find frustrating, if I was a parent, are the negligible numbers of kids going to the ivy colleges from schools such as St Patrick and the British School (numbers are significant only for Sidwell and maybe WIS). I mean you invest $500,000 for your kid education and you end up at Vermont State. What the F***? [/quote]

I have always hear that it is easier to get into elite schools from Wilson. The real question is are these kids prepared for rigorous work. Also, often parents of children who are struggling go to private so they don't fall even farther behind.[/quote]

What a bizarre assertion.  The many, many students at my Ivy who came from private schools hadn't gone private because they were falling behind.  They were frequently the best-prepared, best-educated, and most successful students.  [/quote]

Best educated yes. Of course, on average kids from private schools come from wealthy families and higher SES , i.e. come from more educated families and have access to more enrichment exposure during their school years (trips abroad, private music lessons, expensive cultural activities such as classic music concerts, private tutors..).

Best prepared? No! Most successful ? Not at all!!

All those attending a Ivy college nowadays will tell you that academic success is not correlated with private vs. public education. They will also tell you that, non matter which HS kids come from, the gap in math with students from some Asian countries (China, Korea and for some sub-subjects India) is insurmountable.[/quote]

But most of the applicants from China cheat. [/quote]

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