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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience across public and private in this region, the answer is that a “nerdy, quirky” kid will feel more at home in public. Among the wealthier set at private, families tend to discourage these traits and encourage sports, extroversion, leadership, and to a certain extent conformity. Your miles may vary.[/quote]

Totally opposite experience. Being smart and intellectually engaged is rewarded at rigorous private schools. Not at publics...at all. [/quote]

The wealthier set encourages smart, intellectually engaged, and sports, extroversion, leadership, and conformity. It's great to be smart as long as you're an all-American kid who's a great future candidate for Harvard and a Rhodes scholarship, basically. But that set seems a lot less friendly to weird geeks.[/quote]

Have you been to these schools? There are lots of kids like you describe. There are lots of studious introverts too! [/quote]

I’m one of these posters and I’m basing it on Norwood and 2 Catholic high schools. Definitely could be different at others.[/quote]

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