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Is this OP? Again I appreciate your thoughtfulness, or whoever you are.

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As for the costs, public schools with great demographics create networks of former classmates who are later successful in their business and professional ventures. Sure, if you attend InnerCity Middle and High School, you probably will still be successful, but you will not have this long-standing network, deep friendships that go back to the playground before any of you had any money or any clue. To me, these social aspects are important. As an economist surely you've seen research on the value of such networks. Plus the benefit of the parent networks, not even considering the kids!

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No, I am a different social scientist.

As to the student networks, I am dubious that MS networks matter much to life success. HS networks maybe (but Hardy feeds Wilson, same as Deal does) and college networks matter more. OP did not mention the possible advantages on a college essay of describing an experience at a MS with very high FARMs or minority rates. You can call that a nebulous benefit, but I think it is no more so than a MS network.

As for parents networks, that's a point.  Though my sense is that MS parents network less with each other than ES parents, and the need to move out of the neighborhood (if they are not doing the private school choice) could be disruptive to their social networks. [/quote]If an anecdote is of any use here, let me say that my kid went to Hardy and is still good friends with a couple of kids she went to school with -- but they are also from a high-income, well-educated family.  Dd is in college now and I've been helping her get informational interviews in the field she's interested in through my networks -- which are, of course, completely unrelated to Hardy.[/quote]

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