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[quote=Anonymous]If you have ANY other use for your money -- including paying for more or all of college -- NOT worth it to spend the money on private k-12.

As for admissions -- no, it doesn't make an Ivy or another elite school more likely. I went to one of those elite schools not that many yrs ago (graduated in the 2000s) and it was 50% private and 50% public. I also do various committees for the university now and they REALLY take it seriously that they want to be open to everyone, not just Sidwell grads so they hold the 50-50 distribution very strictly.

As for connections - no, UNLESS you're one of the elite families. If you are already one of the elite families, sending your kids to school with other elites will lead to more socializing between families for 12 yrs, which WILL benefit your kid when he's at college and decides he wants to do real estate development and can call up his high school best friend whose dad is the hottest developer in town and obviously won't say no to an internship for a kid he's known since age 5. But if your life at that private school is more "go to school and go home" and the family connections aren't built, those become "school friends" and it's highly unlikely they'll hook you up with jobs etc. later when they can hook up their family friends.[/quote]

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