<p>Yes, the Tabor stats are apparently unique, and posted on them some time ago. The bottom half had some very fine destinations. A general rule of thumb is, given the fortunate opportunity of being able to choose after M10, taking into consideration whether your child has a realistic chance to be a top-third academic performer at any given school. Exeter’s top-third do very well, particularly with Ivies, but the top-third at any top-30, or even top-50, BS should be positioned to get into a highly-selective college. There are certainly other considerations, though. What about the strength of the College Office? What about the feelings of “belonging” at visit-back, or before? </p>
<p>Well, how the heck would one accurately predict the academic stats the kid will achieve some three years down the road, in any given environment? I think it folly to ever say Johnnie, you are not Exeter top-third, but you are Concord top 10%. Too many variables.</p>
<p>Ditto on the CC offices and their outcomes. Lists vary, and look more or less “impressive”, but you can’t extrapolate/predict accurately, imho, from Gr 8, 9, 10 to where the kid will land on the BS matriculation list for senior year graduation. Agree that one might find enough evidence to feel one CC office has been more “effective” than another, but nothing hard enough to know your own child’s college admit experience years ahead of time.</p>
<p>to wit: Super-high SSAT scores, great grades at a good middle school. Lovely child in so many ways. Four years on, these kids are getting rejections or deferrals right now by the boatloads for their ED/EA apps. Numbers are numbers at “lottery schools”. And, lo, some are getting in. (Congrats to those. Aren’t athletes and development and brilliant kids the major, but not only, beneficiaries of the early admit process?)</p>
<p>Know your child well enough to help her make a BS choice based on better “fit”, with some assurance that the CC office has a track record suggesting a fine outcome. After doing that, keep the view more on the present experience, though of course you (yes, you!) can’t help researching the various college possibilities. </p>