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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in a wealthy part of Los Angeles where there's a lot of self made success. The knock-on effect is that there's lots of students at my kid's HS who have no ambition and as a result they have bad grades / fail classes and so on. They are going to graduate into wealth but without any ambition. It's weird and I think its a particular cultural quirk of the neighborhood we live in.[/quote]

Agree. I see that all over as well. Southern California is so different than the east coast culture. People will say “but what about Harvard Westlake!”  - well that’s irrelevant. Most Californians are not like the families who send their kids to HW. Most Californians are not brand conscious when it comes to college, and the only brands that matter are USC v UCLA [/quote]

Someone said LA…not Southern CA.  That’s like saying the DMV is the same as how people in St Mary’s County MD think of college…which of course isn’t the case at all.

I have 5 friends in LA…not southern CA…LA (Brentwood, Santa Monica (OK, technically not LA), Hancock Park)…they all send their kids to private schools and the college competitiveness is no different although no surprise Stanford is the gold standard in their eyes.

They tell me LA public schools are fairly bad at the HS level, though there are magnets.  I don’t know enough about LA public comprehensive high schools to comment.[/quote]

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