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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As with almost any school, the biggest difference is the caliber of the students and the resources they bring to the table. In that measure Walls cannot compete with the avg privates let alone the elite ones that are elite because of the resources of their students not due to the shine of their floors. As the rule of thumb in this country that poor kids will have poor outcomes, rich kids will have rich experiences with middle kids.... you guessed it middle. Walls is solidly middle. Individuals can buck trends, but the mean outcome is typically quite mean in its consistency.    [/quote]

You're equating private school outcomes and parental wealth outcomes. Parental wealth is far more predictive of outcome than the high school attended. [/quote]

But the Venn diagram of upper tier private school attendance and upper tier affluence is almost a solid circle. Walls has almost no real money in it. People focus on math levels but what they are really talking about is engineered outcomes. Privates build better futures for kids who for the most part are already on the fast track. Walls wouldn’t be able to keep up in just about any metric. Just as Dunbar can’t compete with Walls. Simply because much of it is already decided at the start for most. Very few schools actually help you move up significantly in SES, the few that do have single digit acceptance rates and most of the boost come from the affluence of body and not the school it’s self.  No coach can make a team full of 5’7 band nerds compete at the D1 basketball level. And there isn’t a school that can constantly take a bunch of middle class and engineer elite outcomes. [/quote]

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