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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you feel guilty about taking aid with such a large salary?  It seems like you are prioritizing something like a large house, new cars, vacations, and lifestyle.[/quote]

nope, I would not feel guilty and neither should anybody else.  schools are free to give aid, or not, to whomever they choose and the calculus is never clear nor necessarily fair. need, legacy, merit, race, sports, and other factors are always in the mix. nobody has the right to go to any particular private school or to get aid, so debates over who is more "deserving" are not productive.   if you want equal treatment, go to a public school where everyone pays exactly the same tuition, and nobody can buy their way into the inner circle and decision-making through big donations.  if you want to live in the "privileged" world of private schools, you need to rise above jealousy over advantages that other families are able to get through one means or another.[/quote]

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Excellent and realistic depiction of life in private schools.

Not entirely accurate, though. Even in public schools PTA moms buy influence through fundraising.[/quote]

of course there is influence peddling everywhere, but it is a lot more in privates than publics.  [/quote]

Public schools are a lost cause.  Why bother.[/quote]

It is super important. You can’t shelter your kids their entire life. They will need to hang out with people educated from the public school, in college and workplaces. 
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A lot of the kids causing problems in public schools won’t make it to college or white collar jobs. [/quote]

And many do make to colleges. For one, MIT admits many public school students. Here is a thoughtful article:

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/on_schools_context/

It’s interesting that the question is framed in terms of private versus public schools. At MIT, compared with our “peer institutions,” we have one of the lowest percentages of private school students in our student body, and a great deal of those private school students are from religious schools of various sorts. This isn’t to say that we prefer public school students, or religious school students, or discriminate against private school students. It is to say that, at least from my perspective, it seems like MIT has a pretty broad diversity of high schools attended by its students, and we admit the best matches for MIT wherever they may attend high school.

It’s also worth noting that MIT, again compared with its so-called “peer institutions,” has a high rate of low income students and first generation college students. I’m proud of that, and those statistics are bolstered by our strong emphasis on understanding context.
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