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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The experience of a student at a wealthy private is typically very different from the experience at a large public with a limited budget.

Generally speaking, course availability and getting the classes you actually want each semester can be a big difference between the two.[/quote]
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Just as the experience at an independent HS is very different from that a large public HS.  What some people will never understand (ahem, public school parents) is that parents who pay to send their kids to elite HS's aren't interested in having their with the masses at large public colleges, regardless of rankings.[/quote]

This.[/quote]
? I don't think public school parents care whether the private school parents send their kids to expensive privates so that they don't have to mingle with the masses.[/quote]

+1 It's good to avoid the schools that rich kids want to go to because they are usually choosing a place where they can slack off because they know they have the connections anyway.  This distorts the "outcomes/ROI" measures.[/quote]
That's very true. Hard to measure just how "successful" the college is in terms of outcomes due to those family connections.

I think a list that shows the SES movement of the students is a good indication of how well those students turn out.   Most of the kids in large publics probably don't have the family connections to get a high paying job.

My kid is at a large public and said they know some kids at the expensive private colleges who have family connections to get great internships.  That distorts the success measure.[/quote]

Except a lot of the wealthy kids seem to go to out of state publics these days too.  And many of the expensive private schools offer significant financial aid to lower income families--and merit aid to MC/UMC just above the cut-offs for financial aid--often making them a better deal.
NyTimes has a good social mobility analysis of all the different schools.  You can't just go by public/private.[/quote]

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