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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My experience w/elite private schools, high school or college, is: subjecting the students to stress, lots of it, is the main point. Accomplished professionals shoulder a great amount of stress. These students are on track to be very high achievers. They either shoulder that stress well or they don't rise to the pinnacle in their profession.[/quote]

Accomplished professionals in which industries and what kind of stress? In my experience this is true of big law, banking, and medicine. Half of my friends in these industries look over with envy at peers who earn just as much in other industries. Then they complain of feeling shackled to golden handcuffs, but they lack skills needed to transfer industries. Skills that are developed in school dances, athletics, hanging out with friends, watching movies and other activities. Add to that high rates of failing marriages in all 3 industries and by middle age, those career tracks look fairly unappealing even at the pinnacle. I’m on alumni committees for several “elite” schools. Too much stress is when you’re no longer making decisions by choice but rather out of fear, leading to a life that no longer looks like the one you want.[/quote]

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