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[quote=Anonymous]11:22, you continue to miss the WHOLE POINT, which is the income disparity between even Whitman families (arguably the wealthiest parent body in the county) and private school families who mostly earn $350k or more, or who earn less but have parental help (according to DCUM wisdom). It means nothing to take the top 25% of the class (BTW, is this GPA, SATs, or something else) if you don't know the SES or HH incomes of these kids. YOU HAVE TO CONTROL FOR INCOME. WHITMAN IS MUCH MORE MIDDLE CLASS (forget the FARMS rates) than any private shool.

Sorry about the caps, but in your case, where you don't seem to have any idea how the middle class (say $200k) lives and makes decisions about big things like education, it seems so necessary. (And your OOS point is a minor one, but you also don't seem to realize how many, many high-achieving kids get merit money from 2nd-tier private OOS schools - I could rattle off a bunch of kids who got OOS merit money just from my kids' friends, whereas Ivies don't give merit money.)

To rephrase this: if you had SES data for Whitman, so that you could prove that those top 25% of Whitman kids are just as wealthy as private school kids, then we might be impressed by this disparity in Ivy attendance.

PS. Your insistence that the "best" kids "choose" private schools suffers from exactly the SAME PROBLEM: you seem incapable of understanding that a middle class family (say $200k) is probably not going to be able to afford EITHER Sidwell or an Ivy. [/quote]

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