2025 Privates College Decisions

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

Hey now, don’t forget the stabbing during a fire drill this year. Turning a simulated emergency into a real emergency is a unique experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

Hope your kid isn't in MCPS. Just got a sneak peek of the new boundary proposal maps. It isn't a pretty picture and your kid will just be one of their pawns. There's one of the best advantages of private school!!

MCPS lives rent-free in your head.
LOL

You're the one who decided to post in the private school forum. I think we know what's actually living rent-free and where.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

The point of private scholl is not to get the kid into Harvard or Yale. It is for the education. Most of the people with kids in privates do not miss that 200k. It is of no value to them. They cut nothing for the kids to go there. 50k a year to then is like 1k to others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

Hope your kid isn't in MCPS. Just got a sneak peek of the new boundary proposal maps. It isn't a pretty picture and your kid will just be one of their pawns. There's one of the best advantages of private school!!

MCPS lives rent-free in your head.
LOL

You're the one who decided to post in the private school forum. I think we know what's actually living rent-free and where.

You're the one who brought in MCPS, in a thread that has nothing to do with MCPS.
RENT-FREE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

I agree, re: the disdain being unpleasant and unhelpful. But I don't think using college as the defining metric makes sense either. We'd all consider Harvard undergrad "elite" even though their grads end up at Harvard Law alongside grads from U. Nebraska and Iowa.

(I googled to be sure that was accurate: https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

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No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

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DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

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No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

Hope your kid isn't in MCPS. Just got a sneak peek of the new boundary proposal maps. It isn't a pretty picture and your kid will just be one of their pawns. There's one of the best advantages of private school!!

MCPS lives rent-free in your head.
LOL

You're the one who decided to post in the private school forum. I think we know what's actually living rent-free and where.

You're the one who brought in MCPS, in a thread that has nothing to do with MCPS.
RENT-FREE

LOL no, that door got opened with this post over two months ago.
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/120/1251590.page#29645451

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

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DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

Donald Trump has entered the chat

No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

Lol—you lost me at meritocracy! 🤣
Have you been paying attention to the idiots running this current administration? I’ll let you guess how many of them attained their positions. Hint: it wasn’t based on merit (or in many cases, intelligence or hard work).

There’s a big difference between the way the world should be (your perspective), and the way the world is. Those in power depend on your continued belief in your worldview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

I'm not PP, but LinkedIn's explosive growth and traffic scoffs at your naive view of job markets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

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DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

Donald Trump has entered the chat

No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

Gosh. Sounds exciting. Please tell everyone about this exciting field where merit is the only thing that matters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

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DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

Donald Trump has entered the chat

No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

Lol—you lost me at meritocracy! 🤣
Have you been paying attention to the idiots running this current administration? I’ll let you guess how many of them attained their positions. Hint: it wasn’t based on merit (or in many cases, intelligence or hard work).

There’s a big difference between the way the world should be (your perspective), and the way the world is. Those in power depend on your continued belief in your worldview.

Oh brother. How exactly do you think Trump became president? Do you think it was because he just knew the right people? Do you think there's a guy who's in charge of the Electoral College, and he went to boarding school back in the day with Trump, and he made this all happen because, you know, he just thought Trump was such a swell guy?