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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine is 15k. A bargain! You need to find the no frills ones that provide a strong academic foundation at a reasonable cost. [/quote]

I think that thing doesn’t exist.
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Yeah, I think most parochial schools are pretty meh. If you're interested in the religious foundation, that's one thing (although couldn't you just use free Sunday school)?[/quote]

For many, the religious aspect is secondary to the MUCH higher expectations that Catholic schools have for their students. That's mostly what I was paying for. My son (called a loser previously) gave exactly what was expected and got straight As in public school. The work he handed in was most definitely not A work. He coasted through school thinking the work he was doing was fantastic when it wasn't. The straight As disappeared when he got to Catholic school. He had to work MUCH harder to get Bs. He developed an actual work ethic. The public school policies of retakes and no late penalties are awful for developing actual EF skills. [/quote]

This was our experience going from public middle school to Catholic HS. Our son was very strong in math but his writing skills were horrendous despite getting As on all his writing projects. In HS he actually learned how to write. My younger one went to Catholic throughout elementary into HS and she is a great writer by comparison. Aced the ACT english and reading sections with a 36 with no prep.[/quote]

This is not common. Many of the private schools I looked at had worse test results than our assigned public school. College admission results were also not that impressive. And that's after cherry picking the kids they accept. I couldn't find much justification. [/quote]

Sounds like bs. You have no idea what outplacement results kids from the whole public and whole private have. Even if you did, enhanced college placement isn’t the point of private. [/quote]

Oh please. A lot of these privates list acceptances, not just outplacements. And it was a bunch of mediocre schools, which shouldn't be surprising when the test scores are also mediocre. If you're there for something other than academics, that's one thing, but academically it was not impressive. [/quote]

LOL again very uninformed comment here. [b]The middle to most elite private schools have matriculations that put even the best public schools to shame. [/b]Only 5% of matriculations at the strongest high schools in Bethesda area end up in T20 schools. It is 20 percent in my daughter's Catholic HS and 30% in some of the more elite high schools in the area. You should educate yourself before you chime in. And I am talking enrollment, not acceptances, so don't try to use that narrative with me. And I have no idea what kind of test scores you are trying to push here. No private school student takes any of the tests that public students take beyond the SAT/ACT. And those are self reported stats, which is not good data.[/quote]

The top privates, yes. The middle? No. And you know why that is? Because there is a concentration among the top privates of Ivy alumni and wealthy parents who can pay to package their kids' applications.

Don't lie to yourself, PP. If you don't have money to burn, and did not attend XYZ yourself, your kid has a better chance at getting into a top college from public, not a top private. Maybe yours was the exception. 
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