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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are filling a niche. There are people who don’t want stress factories for their kids and there are kids who just couldn’t keep up at those types of schools. Prestige is all in the eye of the beholder. If you think happiness and success in life will come from getting admitted to a top 20 college then good for you. Lots of people don’t think that way and that is why these schools exist.[/quote]

I don't think it's necessarily top 20 college obsession, it's more a college readiness, and more to the point, a readiness for challenging departments. Any private school student can get into college, but are the seniors prepared to handle pre-med, engineering, computer science, nursing, statistics, pre-law tracks? That's where rigor helps.[/quote]

I know this will shock you but a lot of kids who don’t go to your top tier privates schools go to top 20 colleges. In fact the vast majority of kids in any of those college majors you listed haven’t gone to what you would consider top tier high schools anywhere.

There are smart kids in every school. And yes most schools in this area prepare kids well to succeed in college. [/quote]

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