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The fact is that roughly 82% of Sudbury students go on to college compared to 63% of public school students nationwide.

this doesn't blow my mind at all. that means a 5th of the students aren't going on to college.

i'm pretty sure your standard, stereotypical east coast prep school named after a dead white guy could beat that number easily.

and as long as your metric for success is acceptance into college, that's probably going to be true.

I probably shouldn't have included that stat. The point was not to say that Sudbury Valley was sending 100% of their grads to MIT or something, but rather to note that I think people would predict far lower numbers of college-going graduates if they tried to predict the outcomes of a school that had not requirements and no curriculum at all...

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