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I think that a major factor in the private vs. public school debate is location. Depending on how the Board of Ed. in your school is, it could make a huge difference. I live in New York City and up until high school, I was in a secular private school. I got accepted into a specialized public high school so my parents decided to take me out of private school because the costs were insane. We're talking my 8th grade tuition cost more than my private college tuition costs now. So anyways, one major difference I noticed between private and public school is the attention teachers paid to students and the effort that was put into college placement. At my public high school, you were randomly assigned your college advisor. Your advisor had between 100-150 other students, if you met with him or her, fine, if not, your loss. In addition, your advisor taught an average of 4-6 classes, and maybe advised a club or two. This meant it was usually pretty difficult to actually make an appointment to see your advisor. In the private school, however things were another story. Each college advisor had no more than 30 students. The advisors didn't teach any classes or do anything other than college advising from 8am- 3pm. The advisors were friends with admissions directors at colleges and they were often able to find out exactly what the admissions directors were looking for or could put in a good word for a particular applicant. In that respect, I think that yes, public versus private school makes a big difference.
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