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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get the elite private school thing.  In my teen days, I had a few offers of interest as I had high grades and scores and was from a poor single mother home.  Oh, and in 8th grade I was performing in athletics at nearly a college level.  There was nothing that an elite private school could have done for me, other than lower the quality of the athletes I was competing against.  (Eventually a state and national champion in high school).  Moreover, nothing was better than the big public high school I attended in terms of learning to manage your own affairs. No one to spoon feed you.  My public high school was good and the kids by and large were not all that tough mentally, but I got plenty of exposure to that in athletics.  Again, I don't see the value proposition (I went to one of the two top 10 universities that give Division 1 scholarships), and the university I attended had scores of elite private school kids.  By and large these kids were no better than the public school kids, and worse yet, they would have their parents on top of them for academic and career decisions.  I did well because from an early age my grades and accomplishments were entirely my own - I had to live with them.  I just don't get the elite private school thing. [/quote]

For one thing, you would have learned better writing skills.[/quote]

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