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[quote=Anonymous]I think there is an important distinction to be made. I want to an elite private high school with a mix of high-earning professionals and wealthy entrepreneurs. In most cases, the professional kids were quite motivated by the high school years to achieve because of the merit-oriented, education-values households they came from. They took full advantage of academic and extracurricular opportunities and were motivated to get into the top schools. Those kids also had a sense that there were not vast trust-funds or family businesses that could finance a future life of countless screw-up. I was one of the kids- granted had a fantastic lifestyle growing up, but also knew that I had to go after all opportunities to sustain it for myself. The future TF/big family business kids didn't have the same incentives to perform because many of them just assumed that no matter what they did they would inherit the world so to speak- and many did.

I'm glad I went to a top private, helped prep me for a great Ivy, which led to great grad school, which led to a high-income career that actually focusses on improving the lives of the poor and under-privileged around the world. I think people are sometimes myopic- it's not an either or proposition all the time- you can do well (financially), while doing good (impact)...the choices just aren't as stark as biglaw vs. non-profit....[/quote]

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