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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most smart kids go to public school.

The "elite" privates *may* get most of the smart rich kids (but clearly some go to publics in affluent neighborhoods).

At any rate, only a small fraction of smart kids are rich.

And only a small fraction of rich kids are smart.

The smartest rich kids who go private tend to cluster at a few schools.

Leaving most private schools full of kids distinguished more by their family's wealth/status than by their intelligence.

And even at the most academically elite private schools,  there just aren't that many super-high achievers academically-speaking -- measured in absolute terms, as a percentage of the class, or compared to elite public magnet/selective admission schools.

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All true.  But whenever I meet someone who I learn is a graduate of St. Albans or NCS or Prep or Stone Ridge, I always expect them to have poise and grace and a certain lustre.  I can't say that I'm always proven right.  But that's the first thing that comes to mind.  I can't say the same thing of even a Churchill or Whitman or BCC grad.[/quote]

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