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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thank you for the feedback. [b]I was kinda hoping to hear that all the Ws and BCC are great, but on the margin, not worth the squeeze financially since maybe the other schools have gotten an unfair/inaccurate rep. (no such luck I guess) [/b] Budget wise, we are in the 600-700K range adn that would be a squeeze, leaving us with nearly nothing in savings and I'm not sure whether there is anything in the neighborhood worth purchasing for that price anyway.  I'm also a little hesitant for my kids to be amongs peers that will be a lot more privileged than they are and that they might think that this is the norm.  Is that a legitimate thing to concern myself with?[/quote]

You are unlikely to get any responses like that because people don't usually have experience with both W schools and SS high schools. They chose one or the other. The people replying chose Ws, and are happy, but you can't really know whether they could have been happy elsewhere because they didn't make that choice. How would someone whose kids go to Whitman know for sure whether Einstein gets an undeserved bad rep? Lots of folks post positive things about Einstein, but people who don't live there diss it. But how do they know what it is really like? Many people in W schools aren't feeling stretched by being there, so can't really judge whether it would be worth a stretch. And if they paid a hefty sum for their house, human nature dictates they tell themselves it was worth it. Those school are all great, so no one will tell you to avoid them. I just don't think you can get a clear answer to this from someone else. You have to decide if it is worth it To YOU.[/quote]

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