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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.  Many thanks for the feedback.  So does anyone with kids in public school disagree with the following two statements:

1. A substantial number of public school students in the DC/MD/VA area have parents who attended top colleges and grad schools, including not only Ivy League universities but also several other similarly prestigious institutions.

2. A substantial number of public school students in the DC/MD/VA area come from families earning $250,000 or more.[/quote]

Wait, I don't get it. I thought you were asking:  of parents who went to Ivies/earn a lot of money, how many send their children to public schools? But actually you're asking: of public school students in DC/MD/VA, how many have parents who went to Ivies/earn a lot of money?

If the latter, I would say -- not a whole lot. The number of people who didn't go to Ivies is enormously bigger than the number of people who did, and $350,000+ is a lot of money, even in the more affluent parts of the DC metropolitan area.[/quote]
You're right ... maybe I've confused the question.  I get that the number of Ivy/$350k (shorthand obviously) families is pretty small to begin with - no matter where their children attend school - so I don't expect it to be a big % regardless.  What I'm really trying to get at is whether the Ivy/$350k families almost exclusively choose private schools, such that very few of them choose public schools ... or whether instead lots of them choose public schools too, such that there are more than just a few in public schools (in raw #s, not percentages).

Maybe another way to ask the question is this: Of all your neighbors and co-workers in DC who are Ivy/$350k families, what's the rough % who send their children to private school vs. public school?  For me, I'd say it's about 90% public and only 10% private, but I'm not sure if I'm representative.[/quote]

Not sure about neighbors, but for my classmates I'd say it's maybe 60/40 private/public. For my neighbors, most of whom probably meet the $350k mark, it's about 40/60 but I don't know the educational pedigree of each one. Of the private school kids about half are probably at Catholic school which means there is a higher chance that the parents went to Catholic colleges (I know that's the case for some) than Ivy schools.[/quote]

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