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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will never forget the people who went to crappy high schools and ended up washing out of college. One of my freshman year roommates got her parents to write her papers. That worked until the in class essays for tests and then the cat was out of the bag. [/quote]

I’ll never forget my freshman year roommate at a T10 who went to a NE boarding school and smoked so much weed that she had to leave jr year and doesn’t even remember soph year.[/quote]

LOL! That was the boarding school kids at my top SLAC as well. Stoned all the time. [/quote]

This is why I wont send my kids to NE boarding schools. I went to one and there were a lot of drugs. Wealthy kids with access and not enough parental supervision. But I also saw a lot of academic preparedness issues amongst my peers in college. I sailed through, studied abroad, and still could have graduated early. You probably get drugs everywhere but boarding school was just a recipe for disaster for some kids.[/quote]

I also sailed through college, studied abroad, and graduated early … after attending a strong public high school. [b]My classmates from privates did not seem any more prepared. [/b]Those who went to boarding school also expressed that they had little motivation for college due to having already “done it all” at boarding school. [/quote]

Out of your entire public high school graduating class, how many kids didn’t graduate from college in 4 years? How many dropped out altogether, or never even started?

I went to a private high school with a graduating class of about 110 students. I know of two people from my high school class who didn’t graduate from college at 22. That’s it. One became a successful actor.

Having momentum throughout college, especially when you see your high school friends on holiday breaks, helps.

You don’t know if your kid is going to be a top-of-the-class superstar when they’re in 8th grade. Why risk it?[/quote]

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