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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far, it seems like it’s mostly networking. That seems a bit crazy to me because kids at all schools form into groups that are more alike than dissimilar - translation: the poor kid won’t suddenly be hanging out with the rich kid. Also, most people I know who went to elite schools never got a job through a school connection. Yes, the school probably looked good on their resume, but it wasn’t school networking that landed them a position. [/quote]

I was the first responder who put number 6 first. It is not about networking per se, but it is about peer influence. This is very important to me for my kids because our town is conservative and our high school is very mediocre and not competitive at all. My oldest's friends at his college are normal MC/UMC kids like he is but they have ambition and expose him to places and other ways of thinking. Peer influence matters a great deal to me because this is how I broke out of my bubble/small world view during college as well. [/quote]

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