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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a rural kid who went to a bad public high school and then HYP, I cannot recommend the strategy. Because it doesn't really work that way, and because it's a high price to pay for uncertain results.[/quote]

I would never do this because I think about how much I struggled socially and in some ways academically as someone at a top college and law school who had only gone to weak public schools beforehand. I never, ever felt like I belonged there. Not even once.  Don't do that to your kid.[/quote]

1000% this. It wasn't better. I nearly failed out. I would rather have gone to a good high school and then a SLAC or the state flagship. Because when I got to HYP for law school (well, not P), it was chock full of state flagship kids. And now that I hire, I go for state honors grads over HYP every time. Much harder workers.

And if you're just moving there for a year or two, admissions officers will see right through it, so it won't work. You have to actually be *from* there, not just attended 12th grade. You have to have had a rural upbringing. And what about your jobs? Are you going to send your younger kid to crap schools for even longer? There's a reason people don't do this. It doesn't work and the tradeoffs are significant.[/quote]

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