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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And its funny to see all of the teeth gnashing about hawing about tuition and expenses and this and that.

Son: public school kid (FCPS), graduated magna cum laude from George Mason, graduated cum laude from Georgetown, and is now getting his PhD at Hopkins.  Not bad for a 23 year old.

How much did we pay?  Well nothing for high school.  About $110k for four years of college (including a stint at Oxford), $40k for Georgetown (he got a partial grant), and Hopkins is free.

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Yawn.

First of all, this is an anecdote and it doesn’t negate the fact that private school kids are overrepresented at elite colleges.

Second, no one is impressed by your Georgetown kid studying abroad at Oxford. In fact, the most impressive Georgetown kids study abroad in more interesting places. I studied in Russia. My friend went to Cairo.

The kids who went to Oxford just wanted to hang out in England.

And of course his PhD is free. No one pays for a PhD. Hopkins is pretty good, depending on the program. I went to UChicago. [/quote]

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