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Harry Jaffe: Ditch Sidwell and send your kid to the new Wilson
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Anonymous
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Can someone please enlighten me - what are a "Big 3 HS," "an HYP university," and "a Trinity law school"? For the life of me, these descriptions make no sense. Do I need to start reading the private boards to be able to undertand? |
Anonymous
This is not about one-time exhibition exchange day, but switching all the kids between schools for a year. I predict the outcomes similar to if there had not been a switch. While a building helps (and Woodson certainly has a nice one now), the ability and acumen of the kids are much bigger factors in achievement. |
Anonymous
| Well since that will never happen, then I suggest play with the cards that your dealt. |
Anonymous
LOL. Yep. "Big 3" = Sidwell, GDS, and St. Albans / NCS (cue the whinging about how Potomac or Maret or some other school should be included in a "Big 5" or whatever) "HYP" = Harvard, Yale, Princeton "Trinity" law schools = Harvard, Yale, Stanford |
Anonymous
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I went to public elementary, private high school and a competitive private college (the last two on scholarships.) I kind of agree that a top notch private HS is a good investment, and you shouldn't think about money when you pick your college, just find the best school you can get into that's also the right fit for you.
Seriously, do people really make their kids go to a second rate state school if they get in somewhere better? Most of the top schools have plenty of money to help you out. My loans ended up being no larger for private C than public U. |
Anonymous
| PP things have changed. You can't compare your college admission experience to what is going on now. For many families cost is a huge factor. My niece is casting a wide pretty wide net, but the financial aid package is the determining factor. So if she gets in to a top tier school but can't afford it then she will attend her next and more affordable choice - a state school. It's almost near impossible to get into top tier schools these days - check out the story on NPR and the admissions process at Amherst - its crazy. |
Anonymous
You have to be a lawyer to be in on this, AKA "the highest degree you can attain without being good at math." People who are skilled in math & science aren't impressed by this list, as it says more about coming from a wealthy family then actually achieving something challenging on one's own merit. If you can't account for the Engineers, Mathematicians, and Scientists, then by definition the best schools are not on it. 
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Anonymous
Touch defensive, are ye? I think the point of the original post was just that at least one woman who had attended an objectively great high school, university, and grad school found her high school experience to be the most valuable. |
Anonymous
| Right because there are no Nobel Prize Winners teaching at Harvard, Yale or Princeton???!!! |
Anonymous
There are, of course, a number of of them. But Nobel Prize winners aren't confined to the Ivy League. And you won't find any Nobel laureates at law schools, anywhere! |
Anonymous
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"Trinity law schools"?? Never heard of the term, and Google doesn't have it either. You must mean this:
http://www.tiu.edu/law/ |