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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What idiot even brings TJ up in a discussion of elite, long standing, private schools like Exeter, Andover, Groton, Choate, St Paul's, STA and Sidwell?  What a joke.  TJ is an incredible, fantastic PUBLIC school for brilliant, hard working middle class and recently-arrived UMC kids.  TJ is great for those folks but its comparing apples and oranges.  Not even the same universe.[/quote]

You are the idiot. There is only one universe idiot. Not in the same league, not at the same level etc. maybe ok but not "Not in the same universe". See the logic (or lack thereof) of people putting down TJ.  [/quote]

This. Plus it's a sad worldview where kids from 2 professional parent families with graduate degrees (noting that TJ is 1.5% FARMS) are "middle class" or even "recently arrived upper middle class."  No wonder the actual middle class hates the 1% so much.  Apparently, the 1% looks at parents who are a doctor and a federal lawyer spending 750k-a million dollars on a house who pour the kind of money into kid enrichment that TJ parents do (private music lessons, travel sports teams, tutors, etc) and think-- yeah, that's the struggle of an average, middle class American. And we all wonder how Trump got a foothold. What a joke. [/quote]

I agree [b]this attitude that I'n seeing on this board is absolutely unbelievable to me. And one that I naively thought had become extinct a few decades ago[/b]. [/quote]

Well aren't you the dummy then.  Some of you really do live with your heads in the sand.   You probably think racism and sexism and classism are gone too.

Seriously, what folks now call the 1% is basically just the same old upper class moneyed folks (WASPs) but now they have a little more color (no longer just WASPs) and much more worldliness and money thanks to our global economy.  For the most part they remain the same with the same customs and cultures and idiosyncraties one of which is boarding school and top notch private schools.  The fact that you are so unaware of this leaves me to believe you dont get out much beyond your suburban NOVA world.  And that my friend is exactly the point so many have been trying to make on here.

No one doubts the wonders of a TJ education or that those admitted are incredibly smart and forward thinkning and hard working and [i]impressive[/i].  The point however is that is not enough to launch one into the highest levels of power and prestige and life.  Going from TJ to Harvard, Princeton or Yale is not, and likely never will be, the same thing as going from a top boarding or private school to HPY.  The final results upon graduation will not be the same.  The life styles and opportunites and open doors will not be the same for those two very different sets of graduates.  Those two paths do not equal the same outcome in life, not even close.  There is just flat out more out there for the latter, the kids from the boarding school/elite private school world.  More doors will be open, more opportunites will be available, and it will all be easier and smoother.

Life isnt fair is a mantra my mother repeated frequently when I was growing up.  She was never talking about the greater world, more just the size of one's slice of cake but, it is still a very good and very true lesson.  And having a high IQ or perfect SAT or going to TJ doesnt suddenly make life fair.  Certain types of people, the rich and powerful ,will always be ahead of the game.  Hell, they run the game.  [b]THAT is what boarding school is about.[[/b]/quote]

Well our kid goes to one of those boarding schools but gets FA, and they are incredibly generous with their FA.  DC gets along well with them and they seem to accept DC, although his path in life going forward will probably be more akin to a graduate of a good NOVA high school, since we are not rich.[/quote]

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