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[quote=Anonymous]In response to this post,  "[i] Maybe, maybe not. Private schools have a bit of a stigma now, in this anti-elite, inclusive shift. I would save the money as there isn’t a big difference in career outcomes from the bottom performer at private vs. high performer at public…

Um, that’s what the media and there PR engines of the schools would like to have you believe.
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In reality, nearly every 40% of each Ivy League class comes from a private. This, despite the fact that there only 10% of all high school students attend private schools[/b][/i]."

PP, you seem to assume that ALL Private school kids are 1)  rich kids  and 2 ) rich kids who lack any academic merit

That is pretty simplistic

The reality is that nearly 1/3 of the graduates of our " Big 3" Private came from households who HHI in DC was under 80K a year and attended the school on significant FA and were admitted to the Private in the first place because they showed academic promise. So, your assertion that the Ivy Admits from Private schools are academically unqualified rich brats falls flat. I wonder why it is that you seem to want to believe that kids coming from Private school education are somehow universally without merit. Blanket judgements almost never stand up under balanced evaluation and are often just reflective of prejudice. In this case, your own.

In truth, at our DC's Big 3 Private nearly ALL the cum laude honorees of the Senior class were kids from middle class to upper middle class backgrounds admitted to our Big 3 Private in 9th grade from Public schools BECAUSE of their outstanding academic ability. And, no, their parents were not Ivy Graduates. More like the parents were immigrants or 1st gen Americans who went to state schools, did well, got a job in Fed Gov and raised their kids in DC area as a result and sent them to Private because they wanted a better education than DCPS or over crowded MOCO/ FFX PS could provide.

A few Athletic recruits thrown in there in the Ivy admits from our Big 3 Private, but again, those same Ivy Athletic recruits were also cum laude and National Merit nominees and only 1 was a URM.

What your refer to as the " bottom" of the class in terms of grades btw, are very good students who pretty much never got below a " B" and many  earned "A's" in what is a very challenging academic school. What sets the Cum Laude group apart is that that this top 15 % of class have basically achieved nothing less than an " A" in the most demanding college level work ( AP multi-variable calculous, AP CS, AP Physics, AP European History, English Lit/ writing, Latin IV or Ancient Greek for their last 2-3 years of HS ) all while, of course, competing in a sport each season and doing 100 hours of theatre or other Arts and 60 hours of community service just to qualify to graduate from the school.

It is simply untrue and greatly unfair to state that these HS Grads are not qualified for Ivy Admission and didn't work hard, aren't smart at all and just get by on parent's wealth.Why PP's seem to want to believe that is the real question[/quote]

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