Another great benefit is that some of these schools are fantastic in securing college academic scholarships for their graduates.

Our daughter�s school (college prep parochial day school) received over 10.7 million in academic scholarships for the class of 2008, which consisted of 98 students. This was before any type of athletic scholarship or financial aid.

Last year was less, but still almost 8 million in offers for ~ 100 students.

They do not send students off the tippy top colleges every year, but plenty of names that land in the top 25-100 slots on any given list admit them each year.

We consider her school an incredible value.