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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's like deciding between a Chevy and a Mercedes. Both are cars and both ultimately will get you where you want to go. It's a question of whether you think all the extras are worth the cost. Personally I do.[/quote]

OP, the question is, do you want to send your child to a school where people think that the public high school in McLean is a Chevrolet and St. Albans is a Mercedes worth an extra $40,000 per year?[/quote]

:D [/quote]

+1.  PP who graduated from a FCPS HS and has since gone on to multiple Ivies and a career surrounded by mostly wealthy people.  I would never trade the chance to have been around a more diverse group of people at the public HS  in my teens.

I'm sure OP's kid will do fine either way.  If he ends up at St. A's, he'll still find out later that there are situations where public school kids kick his butt, just lik

e Ivy grads find out where graduates of lesser known (and, gasp, public) institutions are concerned. [/quote]

This hasn't been the reality I experienced.  Went to a top public outside this area (which also wasn't very diverse), then a top private college, ivy league law school, and top 10 Biglaw.  The number of people I saw from top public institutions got smaller and smaller along the way.   Not to say that there aren't brilliant people at lesser known public colleges, but we still live in a society where alumni of private elite institutions (and the so-called public ivies) dominate the upper middle class.  Maybe it isn't the way it should be, but it is still largely the way it is.[/quote]

Sounds like you're talking about public vs. private university grads. That's a while 'nother debate.[/quote]

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