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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to one of the BS mentioned here. I loved it, and it continues to feel like home to me when I visit. I was a FA kid, so not by any means the old money 1% club. We're at that level (at least wealth-wise) now, and it's probably not in small part as a result of skills I developed and people I met at that early age. Not really a comparison vis a vis TJ (since I'd never heard of it before moving here), but just my experience. I do think the point a PP raised above is very true and, while subtle, very important. BS kids at Harvard or Yale are on a different footing from public school kids. There were around 25 kids from my senior class that were also in my class at Yale, and I had a natural fluency them and with other kids from similar environs that ends up being important in all sorts of ways that you can't really appreciate from the outside (though I was probably more sensitive to them being an "outsider" on the inside).

Anyway, this thread is unfortunate. Class differences are (understandably) very frustrating to those on the outside looking in. But it sounds like we are talking about a very small, elite universe of highly capable kids (whether BS or TJ) who are all going to do just fine. [/quote]

Nailed it. Impossible to explain to outsiders because folks don't know what they don't know. On a smaller level it's the great public vs great private debate. Parents who've never experienced a great private will talk until they're blue in the face about what a waste of money it is. How many folks understand boarding schools? It's sub 1% of the population, even around privileged D.C. Things outside of your scope are outside of your scope.

I'm originally from Michigan - we had a magnet called International Academy which is #9 US News (TJHS is #5 US News). There's no prestige - it was a place for grubby swots who generally went to good colleges and became engineers and MDs. The elite all sent their kids to local day schools like Cranbrook or Detroit Country Day.[/quote]

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