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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a highly selective LAC (AWS), and found that the students who went to excellent independent schools (not parochial schools) were far better prepared academically than the kids who went to public schools for the first year or so of college. Many of the public schools kids had never written a paper longer than 5 pages or had to read a novel a week. Many of the independent school kids (including the BS ones) had already written at least a couple of 20-page papers, used to 4-6 hours of homework nightly, and were fast readers. HOWEVER, by the end of four years, you could not tell the difference. [/quote]

I find it odd that so many posters were paying such close attention to where their classmates went to high schools
and thus how academically prepared they were for college. I'm sure that this is not a subject I gave a second's thought to when I was in college.

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When I was in college I paid more attention to where the students were from.  I remember thinking how some of the students from small towns seemed to struggle and o do think some attended private schools.

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