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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So are you saying the kids in these top schools aren't smart enough to be in these schools?  I don't get your point.[/quote]
Well, there must be something wrong if you still need tutoring despite attending such a fancy school
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HHI + zip code = high iq[/quote]

Actually, in our family's case it's highly academically successful and hard-working grandparents on both sides, followed by highly academically successful parents (and professionally successful parents in the sense of having significant autonomy, responsibity and authority in intellectually-engaging, socially-useful  jobs), followed by kids who are intellectually engaged and fun.  Both my husband and I had tutors at different times growing up, for a combination of remediation (after a family tragedy) and acceleration.  Not one of us has scored lower than the equivalent of a 150 IQ, nor have any of us ever had any difficulty keeping up academically or socially with out peers through high school or in the ivy college and grad schools we attended.  Not bring defensive, but there seems to be a presumption that the kids of successful parents, or kids in pirovate school, somehow can't keep up with peers in public school.  In our case it's that thd private scho offers what we want for our kids, and the tuition isn't all that relevant in our financial situation.  Same with tutors.  [/quote]

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