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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The writing and critical thinking skills taught at a good private HS are vastly better. I don’t agree that college freshmen catch up after a semester. For me, it has took years if independent reading to know the literary and historical and philosophical references that my kids already know. (I went to a mediocre public HS and had a pre professional college major.) I also think that peer group matters, and that kids at private high schools have many more opportunities for extracurricular leadership. [/quote]

Yeah, you career success is largely determined by the spectrum of your high school and college experience. The academic and social skills are hard to develop in just 4 years in a new town while you are also figuring out laundry and holding down a work study job and trying to catch up in a semester what others learned over 4 years.

I attended Princeton at the same time as Mellody Hobson, and I was listening on the radio about how she grew up poor and then went on into great success. I was very impressed and looked her up, and realized she went to a Catholic Prep school in Chicago. Over and over again, I look at folks LinkedIn or even my college paper facebook and high school matters.   It sets you up with academic schools as well as how to interact culturally. Sometimes I find an outlier, [b]who maybe just attended a magnet like Stuy,[/b] but then their parents are doctors who were Legacy.  Publics here are probably better than I had, but I can see the supersized schools warehousing kids and focused on just getting kids through not getting them prepared. [/quote]

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