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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If all you care about is getting to the next level in the social strata, there is no substitute for a Big 3 private school.[/quote]

What's the next level socially? Are you including top-college placement as a factor in "social strata"? If so, then there are lots of different paths to placement in a top college. Substitutes do exist. [/quote]

Some privates have very rigorous courses [more than public AP's or IB].   Public IB has more consistency - canned curriculum and teaches to write.  Public AP doesn't teach to write and the courses are geared to the AP test.   Year long prep for the exams.   Privates have courses called or for AP but don't provide a good match.    privates also have renegade teachers whereby 1 might teach a section[s] of a required class but have different content and grading .   CUM KILLERS.

If I had to do it all over again?   Public and IB diploma is the best bang for the buck.   There are a lot of bizarre entitled kids in privates and the small social environment leads to being stuck with them.

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