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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]cmon - have no dog in this fight but sooo obvious in my wealthy DCUM enclave that a large majority of parents send their kids to privates because they feel it puts them on a path for a T15.  When this doesn’t materialize and they are applying to - horror upon horror - Clemson, U Delaware, Gettysburg - they are almost embarrassed at the cocktail parties or water cooler.  Larlo going to a 50th ranked national university or LAC wasn’t part of the plan and doesn’t impress anyone, and $200k+ of high school tuition feels like it may have been a bit much.  They can’t reconcile how their kid is going to Skidmore while the local public is sending kids to Vandy TO.  Then the defensiveness, complaining, and finger pointing starts - grade deflation, URMs, “I’m just happy they are getting a better education than everyone else”, etc etc[/quote]

This. The bashing of public school students here is pathetic. I feel sorry for the private school kids who were rejected, but their real problem was the other kids in their private school who simply had better grades, ECs, athletic ability, or rich and famous parents. The private school parents who want to make it about somebody else, anybody else, by blaming public school kids are awful examples to their own kids.[/quote]

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