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<p>BB, while we know that all public high schools are not cut from the same cloth, it seems harder to convince people that Catholic schools also come in a shapes and form. All in all, it often comes to the location with a world of difference between the urban and impoverished schools and the small Shangri-Las that have been created in the new suburban areas. At the end, it all comes to the availanility of resources. In our neck of the woods, the private schools are the poor kids on the block. </p>
<p>And, fwiw, there is a LOT more than SAT and AP scores than come in play. Grading policies, liberal uses of weights, and overall grading toughness come in play. Policies such as having no final exams for perfect attendance are not part of the world of the Catholic schools I know, and neither are an “apple for an A.” Although this is all anecdotal, I learned how different the world of an athlete at a tough grading high school could be from that at one local public schools. While I do not doubt that the exact opposite could be true in other localities, this is what I … observed.</p>