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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because private school parents need schools that seem appealing/impressive to other private school parents. Several schools have carved out that space by being “rich kid” schools. Tulane, Wake, Northeastern, etc. Look at their Pell grant numbers, they have some of the lowest percentages of any national university.[/quote]

This. It is so odd how private school parents think sometimes. They would rather shell out a shit ton of money to have their kids attend second tier private schools over much better state flagships. You see it a lot. And it makes no sense. I guess you can’t buy brains.[/quote]

It is rather quaint that one must belabor the obvious, but allow me to elucidate. The notion of my progeny, raised amidst the cultivated environs of a top-tier enclave and polished by the rigors of private education, commingling with the plebeian masses spawned by your pedestrian public schooling is, frankly, inconceivable. Naturally, I should prefer their milieu to reflect the exclusivity and refinement befitting their upbringing, qualities endemic to esteemed private institutions, however "second-tier" the uninitiated might crudely label them.

As for the trifling matter of tuition, those paltry sums of $30,000 or $50,000, pray, do you genuinely presume such figures give one of my standing pause? A vulgar fixation on fiscal minutiae is the hallmark of lesser strata, for those of us accustomed to investing in legacy rather than ledger books, it is merely the cost of preserving distinction.

Let us not feign egalitarian delusions. Excellence thrives in curated ecosystems, not in the cacophony of the common herd.  [/quote]

:lol: Lol. Quality post.[/quote]

+1. This wins the thread. [/quote]

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