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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are parents really pissed if they spend $35k per year on an elite private high school, but their kid ends up at a 2nd tier or 3rd tier college (which likely could have been achieved had the kid just gone to a local public)?

I ask bc I frequently meet alums of Gonzaga and the like who went to college at, like, James Madison or something like that. Seems like a huge waste of honey on the parents’ part. [/quote]

I don’t know. Are you pissed if you drop an extra $350k on a house in a specific school district only to have your kid end up at JMU?  Plenty of Whitman kids end up at schools they could’ve gotten into from Gaithersburg HS I’m sure.

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I bet some people are pissed about the college outcomes, however, the extra $350k you spent on the house 18+ years ago in the Whitman school district is now worth like $700k, so hard to be particularly upset by the extra spent on the house.  If home values had cratered, that would be a different answer.[/quote]

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