<p>The fact about the private high schools is that you have been paying $30,000+ a year for the past four years, very likely you will continue able/willing to pay Stanford, or others.</p>
<p>pianista, the students from private school may not have less perfect record, or are legacy. Four kids from my son’s private school went to Stanford last year, two of them with SAT scores at least 2350+. They were all top 10 students ( in math and others) in their state.</p>