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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, this is the most pointless 9 page pissing contest I've ever seen.  Is your school among in the top 1% or the top 1.5%?  Is your school's endowment $50 million or is it $55 million?  Does 56% of your school's graduating class get into an Ivy League university or 56.3%?  Does your school have 3 Olympic sized swimming pools and an ice rink, or only 2 and a squash court?  Is the graduating class' average combined SAT score 2350 or 2353?

Frankly, these are all completely meaningless comparisons in any tangible way.  This is all about parents (and in some cases, students who apparently have nothing better to do) comparing the size of their penises (metaphorical or literal), and nothing about getting their children a good and enriching education that meets their specific intellectual and social needs.  The same child who may excel at Andover may fail at Sidwell.  The same child who might fail at Andover may succeed at a DC area public.  In these cases, I define "succeed" as getting into a good college, getting a good job, and having the skills to make enough money to achieve what one wants to achieve.  Arbitrary measures of "success" like those in my first paragraph above do nothing to indicate what will be the best educational path for [i]your [/i]specific child.  By getting all wrapped up in which school is statistically marginally better than some other school in its peer group simply indicates that this is all about the parents' egos and nothing about their child's education.[/quote]

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