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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To me it means a school where there is no work life balance. Kids are overworked and living with a lot of anxiety; they are not learning for the sake of knowledge, discovery and innovation, but to get good grades and stay afloat.

I always wonder if these kids graduate to become leaders and bosses, or if they simply transition to become work horses in the work place. [/quote]

Basically the college version of TJ, Stuyvesant, etc.[/quote]
TJ and Stuy produced way more successful “leaders and bosses” than any TT private schools.  [/quote]

Not sure if this is true proportionately. Sure TJ Stuy could have more in absolutely number bc the class size is literally 10x that of a private HS.

Also am noticing the kids who went from Stuy to LACs and HYP are more likely to become leaders. The Stuy kids who went to CMU or even MIT work for those leaders [/quote]

Exactly. If you want your kid to be a CEO/Bulge Bracket MD/PE Partner/Big Law Partner (which is the definition of "making it" for many of us), they are much more likely to get there from a good private than TJ or Stuy. [b]I'm guessing half the kids and families at TJ and Stuy have no idea what these things even are[/b]. But as you noted, given the huge size of these schools, there definitely will be plenty of kids who do accomplish this. But most of them are the kids of white collar professionals.[/quote]

I'm an ex-parent at one of those schools and can confirm majority pf parents have no idea what these jobs are and don't personally know anyone in these professions. To them, "making it" stills means the traditional doctors, lawyers, engineers. They know about Silicon Valley so they want their kids in Comp Sci, but just so they can become coders and programmers, not the next [b]Sam Altman, Evan Speigel or Mark Zuckerberg[/b] who coincidentally all went to private schools

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Hi, Sam's mom.   :lol: [/quote]

Isn't Sam's mom in jail?  [/quote]

Not sure but Stacey's mom has got it going on[/quote]

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