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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]Actually, I knew exactly who in the class ended up with honors and/or in Phi Beta Kappa, and the students from private schools were under-represented relative to their total numbers. [/b] It wasn't a question of drawing conclusions from a particular circle of friends.

The private school kids did tend to be more "worldly," but otherwise were decidedly less ambitious and driven, and more likely to be legacy admits who had family connections dating back generations.[/quote]

NP here -- Sure, it's in the program at graduation.  But you actually cross-checked this with the facebook to see who went to private school?  Wow, just wow.  (And, BTW, I'm an Ivy grad who went to public school.)   [/quote]

Also an Ivy grad from public school.  My impressions were that there were more flame-outs (by a significant margin) from the public school grads, but that most of the brilliant people at the very top of the class (winning the genius prizes) were also public school grads.  Totally unscientific impression, which might have been just a snapshot of my particular couple of years. I share the "wow, just wow" comment to the person who went back to cross-reference everyone with honors with their school type of origin.[/quote]

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