One advantage of a private high school is really their early guidance that academic breadth is very important. Lot of kids are STEM strong, but ignore the humanities and languages. The private school will make sure you have rigor in those, and preferably have something to show in those. They don’t let the STEM kids slide in those areas. This is crucially important. Good reading and writing skills are essential to get into a top school. Barring the rare naturally gifted creative writer, most normal kids can learn analytical writing. Even creating writing can be learned to some degree. In my younger son’s 6th grade class, the parents had the teacher require the kids to write a 5 page story every week for the whole year.
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