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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fellow elite private school parent here.  Remember guys this is a long term play.  Private has smaller classes so our kids get more attention even if they end up at the same colleges.  Writing skills, etc. tend to be stronger from private.  As a lawyer, I have seen this at firms.  [/quote]

+1. Also soft skills and social network. [b]Sidwell kids, for example, aren't hanging with middle class public schoolers in college.[/b] But of course all of this is over the head of hoi polloi who think their kid is the EXACT same as everyone they go to a certain college with. Campuses are stratified as hell. The playing field is never level.[/quote]

Clearly not a parent of a Sidwell alum or Ivy student. Since 60%+ of my DC's Ivy classmates are public school graduates and about an equal proportion receive financial aid, most of DC's friends at college are "middle class public schoolers." Some are the first in their families to go to college, some are immigrants, half aren't white. [/quote]

There was a student from Sidwell at my Top 10 uni and they were constantly talked about behind their back, and actually not behind their back, because they were so odd.  I felt so bad for them.  It's tough out there in the world socially for awkward DC kids when you add kids from NYC, LA, etc.  [/quote]

Really?  Apparently not bad enough to stop being an a$$. [/quote]

I actually didn't understand what they were doing until about a week in to the whole thing when someone explained it to me.  They called the student "Chafe" because evidently said student was really annoying.  So whenever said student tried to hang around with them, they would find clever ways to fit the word into conversations, like "this shirt is chafing me!"

I did stop hanging around them soon after that because their whole world was above my pay grade.  I am good-looking-ish so they initially drew me into their group, but I realized I was in a whole 'nother world and found some people that made sense to me.  [/quote]

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