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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That hasn't been our experience at all.  Most of our friends are products of private schools, K-12, and Ivy or equivalent colleges, and top grad school programs.  I can assure you that your one example of the fu8k up guy who went to Harvard is the exception rather than the rule.  Probably why he stands out.

Have you ever seen the 7 up series?   [b]Most people pretty much end up in life as expected.[/b][/quote]

Not sure what you're intending to say here. Most people end up where their *talents* would be expected to lead them? Most people end up where the *prestige of their school* would be expected to lead them?

Also, agree that an Ivy or equivalent diploma opens a lot of doors. But the world has changed since we went to school and, in particular, there's no longer a guaranteed path from private schools to the Ivies and equivalent and then straight on to Wall Street.  Plenty of public school kids go to Ivies, MIT and Stanford.  This isn't our grandparents' world of white shoe bankers who all went to the same schools and colleges. It may well be that "most of your friends" are fabulous successes after their private school and Ivy educations, but maybe your friends aren't particularly representative either (anecdata), in fact maybe they're all lawyers (the one profession where this seems to still matter). [/quote]

Most of our friends are lawyers and investment bankers and I agree with you, those are the two professions where where you went to school still count.[/quote]

I'm the "Not sure" poster you're responding to and, FWIW, I went to a top (Ivy) business school. By "where you went to school" I think you must mean college and grad school, but not necessarily high school. I agree that impressive college and grad school diplomas open doors in business and law, but again, these days there are many paths to HYP besides private high school. Besides, I've never seen a resume that listed somebody's private or public high school. To the extent you rely on connections to get into top firms, these are going to be grad school or college connections (bigger pool of connections in your own field), but they're much less likely to be connections among those kids from your private high school who went to film school or are now studying languages or international affairs.

Send your kids to private school for the nurturing environment. But it's a bad bet to send them private because you think they'll have a better chance at Ivies-Stanford-UChicago et cetera.[/quote]

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