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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.[/quote]
Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.[/quote]

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose? [/quote]

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).[/quote]

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street? [/quote]

DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for: 
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal). [/quote]

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