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[quote=Anonymous]As someone who has been following the numbers, it is apparent that admission to Ivy's has gotten harder and harder, across the board. There are more qualified students competing for basically the same number of spots. There are legacy kids, sports kids, kids whose families will pay not only cash tuition but contribute to financial aid scholarships to help out others, etc. So if your goal is to find a school to get your kid into an Ivy, that's a specific and very narrow focus that isn't likely to be successful, just by the numbers. (I'm not sure why that would be anyone's exclusive goal but that's another topic.) However, there are many good reasons to send your child to private that have nothing to do with getting them into an Ivy and everything to do with the quality of their education right now. I'm saying this as someone in a supposedly very good public school district who sent one child public and one private. We're currently looking at moving the older public child over to private. We've tried both, and honestly wanted public to work out. But we've seen both and private offers many advantages that we want.[/quote]

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