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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]

I disagree. Didn't "mail it". We've heard from successful adults who have said their BS experience had good and bad. And we heard from public school folks who rocked.  So the generalization doesn't hold across the board.  If the top schools you are speaking, Exeter alums withdrew funding because of repeated mishandling of sexual abuse/sexual harassment cases (plural).  Groton has a cocaine ring run by the students in cahoots with a prof.  St Paul just had a student rape another student. And so forth and so on, and so forth and so on.

Yes, one can feel they are in like company with people who have had the same experience, but to suggest that no one but the last two posters know and everyone else is clueless shows what insularity and cluelessness you last 2 posters harbor.  All prep schools have their benefits, as do magnet schools, as do religious schools. But one is not better, and studies have shown that the value of the connections doesn't last more that 3 to 4 years.  At that point, it is put up or shut up based on one's own performance.

You no doubt for a good education. No doubt.  As did many people on this thread.  But the fact that one has not heard of a school is no indication of whether they got a good education.  Am I supposed to think the only ones with good educations came from schools of which I have heard? Ridiculous.[/quote]

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