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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m telling you, Burke, Field, SAES and a few others are the ultimate life hacks. If your kid can do well at these schools - with very little homework or intense pressure - they will get into the same colleges as the kids at “Big 5” schools.  You’ll see sh**ty responses to this, but don’t let it alter you. Check out the schools that everyone disdains. Then, look at the universities that the top 10-15% of those classes get into. Then, determine if your kid could be in the top 15%. And if the answer is yes, you’ve figured out a complex problem and given your kids the gift of normalcy.

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But can you get the same level of rigor/learning at these schools that you can at the higher-pressure schools, with the same level of preparedness for these colleges?  Or is it not as good an education?

This is kind of a selfish question as my kid is torn between one of these schools and one of the high-pressure schools and we have to decide in 2 days...[/quote]

I don’t think you are thinking analytically and that is the problem with most parents. They assume more hw means more rigor.
Are kids prepared for college from different schools? Of course, they are. This is especially true when you are comparing schools like Sidwell, Burke, St. Andrews, etc.  Kids are also prepared from most decent public schools whether you want to believe it or not.
 There are students who land at the Ivy schools from both Sidwell and Jackson Reed. You can argue that the Sidwell students are more prepared and I would agree. But the JR students do just fine even if they have to work a bit harder in freshman year in college than Sidwell students. A couple years into college, they are most likely about the same.

My data point is that my son went to an Ivy from Sidwell along with 2 JR students and became friends with them.
He is in a few classes with them. He said they are doing just fine and seem well prepared. [/quote]

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