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[quote=Anonymous]I went to private school in the 1980s and early 1990s when a generous alum gave a lot of money to my school to bring in a more economically diverse student body. In hindsight it would have made a really interesting research study. A few decades later I can say that just a few of my new classmates from disadvantaged households did much better than their parents, they had been chosen based on their strong academic performance and often got in to great colleges based on our high school but several dropped out or didn't really launch into much of a career after graduating. Sadly I would say that most of my peers are somewhat similar to their parents financially and in terms of socioeconomic status. Some of the less ambitious rich kids still did well based on family money or connections. So what does private school really get you in life? I don't know, I think my experience was that a student's home and other cultural factors were a stronger predictor of future success decades later.[/quote]

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