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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes and most of those private school kids are legacy going into top universities.  That said if your UMC kid went to elite private school and comes from parents who went to any non-elite university those kids are going to a similar university as their UMC parents.  Why do you think they ask for your parents’ university on the private school application?  The private schools would rather take a non legacy from parents who went Ivy than a non legacy from parents who went to state schools, all else being equal.  Private schools also have a disproportionate amount of kids from parents who attended elite universities.  I send my kids to an elite private school and I went to my state flagship.  I’ve seen this pattern year after year.  My kid’s best friends’ parents attended Harvard (x3), Yale (x2), Cambridge, Vanderbilt (not elite), Stanford, McGill. Then there is me summa cum laude at state flagship and my husband from elite foreign university (that doesn’t take legacy).[/quote]

Most private school kids are not legacy,  at our feeder private , maybe five percent attend same school as one of parents.  The level of cope coming from some public school posters through the roof.[/quote]

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