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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d be upset to have my kids in public school and think I had a good outcome just because my kid landed into a top college.  These kids still had to sit through public school for K-12 with the class clowns, checked out teachers, low effort curriculum, and severe behavior kids.  These parents have no idea what they missed out on in the better private schools for their kids.  College is just four years and admissions has become somewhat of a lottery.  K-12 is what sets kids up for success, not college.  At that point it is too late.

Plenty of public school grads go to T10 colleges, don’t fit in or struggle, and move onto middle management type careers because they never were given the tools to succeed from public.  Studying for 16 APs and trying to ace standardized tests doesn’t give you direction or real skills in life.[/quote]

Your socio-economic status is way more important to life success vs. public/private.  That said, the kids with the highest ROI from a top 10 school are the poor/usually first gen kids who mostly come from public schools.

Also, the top STEM programs are heavily weighted towards public schools...70% of MIT went to public school (often magnet schools).  Go look at the Forbes 30-under-30 company founders, and most went to public high school.  Again, the common theme is nearly all come from UMC or wealthy backgrounds.[/quote]

You do realize that even at 30 percent, private school kids are overrepresented at MIT.  Only around 10 percent of kids attend private school.[/quote]

It’s 20% private and 10% international.

Sure, that’s over-represented, and nobody is saying private school kids don’t do well in life…but to claim that UMC public school kids will struggle is kind of silly.[/quote]

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