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Reply to "If you have highly motivated kids how much does the school really matter?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I'm guessing I was what you would have considered a highly motivated kid. We lived in PA and I went to an average elementary school, a good but not great middle school and transferred in 10th to an excellent private school because I was bored and lonely and needed a change. I probably would have been ok at the average high school in my home town, but the difference in peer group and course work at the private school was incredible. I went on to a top 10 university - which I expect I would have done either way, but I was definitely more prepared coming out of the private school. I know of a few kids from my home town who graduated from the average high school and went on to selective colleges and universities (including Ivies), but most did not. As PPs have said, peers matter, but also expectations. [/quote]
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