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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are filling a niche. There are people who don’t want stress factories for their kids and there are kids who just couldn’t keep up at those types of schools. Prestige is all in the eye of the beholder. If you think happiness and success in life will come from getting admitted to a top 20 college then good for you. Lots of people don’t think that way and that is why these schools exist.[/quote]

I don't think it's necessarily top 20 college obsession, it's more a college readiness, and more to the point, a readiness for challenging departments. Any private school student can get into college, but are the seniors prepared to handle pre-med, engineering, computer science, nursing, statistics, pre-law tracks? That's where rigor helps.[/quote]

Sheesh. I f*cked off at a good public school, nearly flunked out of a large state U, and yet somehow still made it through a joint JD/ME and BigLaw.  Some people don’t need rigor when they’re young — they need time to mature, burn off some energy, etc.   There is no one-size-fits-all approach.  Follow your chil’s lead.[/quote]

THANK YOU! It's freaking HIGH SCHOOL. [/quote]

Yup. I went to a NE prep school and loved it, but I don’t think you have to have gone somewhere like that to be successful. That’s absurd. DH went to public school, a big state U for college and grad school, and currently makes $300K as a marketing exec. He actually credits those big schools for helping him develop resiliency and resourcefulness that have helped him in his career, and in life in general.[/quote]

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