<p>I’m not sure that I can agree with the recent summary asserted by NoDrama on this thread, even if it may be a fair wrap-up, that top BS’s may not help kids get into Ivy/Stanford/MIT. First, top BS’s send a higher percentage of students to such colleges than do public, non-magnet schools. Second, these BS’s should have such success because they have already put their kids through a rigorous selection process just to enter the BS’s and, therefore, these kids are tuned and then fine-tuned for the rigors of highly selective colleges. It is no surprise that top BS’s are so strong in placing their grads at highly selective colleges. In this regard, see Ch. 17 of Michele Hernandez’s “A for Admission” where she repeats these points, citing as proof the low yields into, and the high placement rate at Ivies from, Andover and Hotchkiss.</p>