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During undergrad, I met a lot of kids who went to private schools for k-12.  My impression of them was that they didn't come from a "culture of achievement" but rather they came from a "culture of privilege."  Most of them lacked perspective and weren't capable of empathy.  
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I agree with this. And specifically my experience of prep school kids in college led me to conclude that mainly what a prep school education gives you is the skill to do your school work efficiently so that you can get drunk four nights a week. (Which is undeniably a skill, and furthermore a skill that I (a graduate of public schools) did not have.)[/quote]

I went to public HS and then attended a small liberal arts college that was also attended by many private school kids.  While they didn't necessarily impress me academically, they were definitely advanced socially (partying, hooking up).  It was also clear that the private school kids all knew each other and had a network that I didn't have.  I'm sure many of them who partied and had a C average used that network to get good jobs after we graduated.[/quote]

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