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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Top local private."

This makes a difference.  What do her grades actually look like?  Does she always get A's in certain subjects? Are the B's grouped in other certain subjects?  Or does she randomly get As and Bs?

If she has a strong group of subjects and if she takes the most rigorous courses in that group, getting Bs in her weak subjects even if they are basically "on grade level" won't matter.  If she applies to every top 50 SLAC she will get in somewhere.

If she culls through the top 50 for the 20 or 25 that she likes best (read DO NOT just apply to the top 20 or 25) making sure to have the same number in each group of 1-10/11-20/21-30, she will get in somewhere.

If she has a strong suit where she stands out, the schools will know she can do the work and if OP you can pay the bill, it will work out.[/quote]

LOL top local private makes no difference. Colleges/universities have many applicants who with stronger stats from other private and public schools. [/quote]

This is just not true. DD got into Amherst (four yrs ago, but still pretty recent) with a 3.68 gpa and nearly perfect  test scores from top local private. She was top 15% of her class with the most rigorous coursework. [b]No way would she have gotten in from a local public[/b] even with the same relative stats (aka grade weighting for aps, etc).[/quote]

How on earth would you know that? [b]Idiotic comment.[/b][/quote]

[b]DP here with a kid at Amherst. That is NOT an idiotic comment. Amherst likes certain schools - the top local privates and the public magnets, and the only way a kid from a regular public school is getting in with those numbers is if they're a URM, recruited athlete or legacy.
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Congrats on having a kid at Amherst.  Did they give you access to their admissions office afterwards so you could see the records of the all "regular public school" kids who applied so you could see how they got in?  Or, anticipating that you'll say "that's what my kid tells me," did they give access to your kid?

You have no basis for your statement.  That your kid got in says nothing.[/quote]

[b]We have gone to the get-togethers for local families. My kid is well-acquainted with the kids at Amherst from the DC area. The vast majority of them are from private and public magnet schools. The 2 kids I can think of from regular public schools are both recruited athletes. Those are the facts.[/b]

Of course Amherst takes kids from public schools. But there are also very aware of geographic diversity among their students and so the unhooked kid from the public high in Fargo, North Dakota, with a 3.8/1500 SAT is going to get in to Amherst long before the kid with those numbers from McLean high, and maybe even a Sidwell kid with those numbers. And the kid with those numbers at Sidwell is going to get in before the McLean HS kid because Amherst knows that a 3.8 at Sidwell is harder to get than a 3.8 at McLean.

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No, these are not the "facts" -- they are your reality.  I'm a public school parent whose kids have been accepted to and attended elite colleges.  It never occurred to me to attend -- in fact, you'd have to drag me there kicking and screaming -- to "get togethers for local families."  That is suuuch a private school attitude and thing.  I don't care that there are other families in the area whose kids attend the same school as my kid.  I only care about my kid and my kid's friends.

I have a hunch your kid is like you -- gravitating to and only caring about the kids who went to private school.

The bottom line is that your evidence is completely anecdotal.  The FACT is that the majority of Amherst students went to public school and that the DC area has excellent public schools.  It's not easy for anyone, anywhere, to get into Amherst, but high performing graduates of DC area public high schools have as good a shot as anyone.

[b]Snob. [/b] [/quote]

:lol:  My kid went to public school. I hope you enjoyed writing your rant as much as I enjoyed reading it.  :lol:

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