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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not our experience.  Our daughter (headed to med school this fall) did very well at a top college, graduating cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  So did her peers.

My husband, a physician, went to Wheaton High in the 70's, then to Ivies (for both college & med school).

If you don't have a child in the red zone, you don't know what you are talking about.[/quote]

Your daughter sounds like an outlier, and your husband's experience at Wheaton 30-35 years ago certainly doesn't say much about current conditions there.

Generally speaking, kids from Whitman, Churchill or Wootton will fare much better at an Ivy or another top university than a student from an Einstein, Kennedy or Wheaton.  It's not because the former are elitists, but instead because they've received a better education and are used to being surrounded by high-achievers who know they have to work hard to excel.  Top kids at Einstein or Kennedy haven't been in a similar environment, so it comes as more of a surprise to them when they attend an academically challenging school and find themselves lagging behind their peers.

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