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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually the public school kids at the Ivies run circles academically around the kids coming from private schools.  The only exceptions I recall were for some of the NYC privates like Dalton and Horace Mann, but certainly not the DC-area privates.[/quote]
I went to an Ivy too, and I had the exact opposite impression.  Pretty much everyone was pretty smart.  But most of my friends from fancy private schools seemed generally much smarter, better able to see the big picture, and more adept at doing well in college.  The public school students were smart, but they were often so disorganized they could not apply their smarts effectively.  Surely there were a few brilliant people from both public and private schools, who were smarter than the rest of us, but they were the small minority.

I'm sure a lot of this depends on each person's particular circle of friends.  My opinion is based on the group of people I knew; yours is based on whoever you knew.  Neither of us knew the GPAs and general attitudes of enough people at our respective college to make any credible conclusions.[/quote]

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