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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wake Forest has a serious cachet among wealthy prep school families. It sounds like a lot of public university alums post here, so the allure of a selective private education full of snobby rich kids is over your head.[/quote]

Wow, way to be an elitist douche. I graduated with honors from Andover. I'm well versed in "the allure of a selective private education." You know how many kids went to Wake Forest from Andover last year? 0. 5 kids went to Michigan and 10 went to UVA. Why? Because UVA and Michigan are better than Wake Forest.

(https://www.andover.edu/files/PhillipsAcademySchoolProfile2017-2018.pdf)

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Cherry picking from the #1 prep school in the world. What does that prove? The median family income of a student from Wake Forest is $221,500, it is top 10 in wealthiest student bodies in the US.

The median family income of a student from Virginia is $155,500.

As I said, WF has serious cachet among wealthy. While UVA is fantastic, but there's a segment of rich people that turn their nose down on a big public U education - they want their kids in small classes, around very high % of other smart rich kids.[/quote]
https://www.gds.org/page/academics/college-counseling/matriculation-map
GDS Past three years: 
11 to Michigan
4 to UVA
1 to Wake Forest

https://www.holton-arms.edu/scholar/college-counseling/matriculation
Holton Arms, class of 2014-2017:
15 to UVA
3 to Michigan
0 to Wake Forest

Choate Rosemary, past 5 years:
22 to Michigan 
7 to UVA
0 to Wake Forest
https://www.choate.edu/uploaded/Documents/Academics/College_Profile.pdf

Phillips Exeter, class of 2015-2017:
25 to Michigan
4 to UVA
0 to Wake Forest
https://www.exeter.edu/sites/default/files/documents/college_matriculation.pdf

St. Paul’s, class of 2013-2016:
11 to UMich
9 to UVA
5 to Wake Forest
https://s3.amazonaws.com/k12-prod-us-east-1-media-pub/36/misc/misc_134107.pdf

Lawrenceville, class 2015-2017:
15 to UMich
15 to UVA
5 to Wake Forest
https://www.lawrenceville.org/page/academics/college-counseling[/quote]

I find it somewhat bizarre that all this money is spent simply  to get into excellent public schools that are still fairly easy to get into from Michigan and VA instate.[/quote]

Kids at these HS don’t consider HS simply a way to get into a certain college.[/quote]

Yeah, right.[/quote]

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