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Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

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DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

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No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

Lol—you lost me at meritocracy! 🤣
Have you been paying attention to the idiots running this current administration? I’ll let you guess how many of them attained their positions. Hint: it wasn’t based on merit (or in many cases, intelligence or hard work).

There’s a big difference between the way the world should be (your perspective), and the way the world is. Those in power depend on your continued belief in your worldview.

Oh brother. How exactly do you think Trump became president? Do you think it was because he just knew the right people? Do you think there's a guy who's in charge of the Electoral College, and he went to boarding school back in the day with Trump, and he made this all happen because, you know, he just thought Trump was such a swell guy?

Is this satire? You can’t be serious. How do you think trump was even in a position to run for President? How do you think he got into Wharton? That idiot couldn’t get admitted through the front door, so he got into Wharton through the side door (as a transfer student from Fordham). If you think he got into Wharton because he’s brilliant, hard working, and he earned it, I’ll let you google the story behind his Wharton admission. Spoiler: It involves family wealth/connections and private school (and similar connections). I’ll stop here because you clearly need to catch up on the facts.

Bonus points: Why do you think all five of his children have only attended three universities: Penn, Georgetown, and NYU? Brilliance, hard work and merit?!? 🤣

You're right that most private school kids are morons, which explains how they can go to a high school with every conceivable advantage under the sun and still not get into a halfway decent college.

But the idea that Trump was elected, at the age of 77, because of where he went to school more than a half century prior is just bizarre. Do you think he had to go to Wharton to learn how to say vicious things about immigrants? Do you think it was Wharton that taught him to tell voters that they should be super angry because they are all victims of something or other?

Where Trump went to school was completely irrelevant to him becoming president. He mostly became president because Democrats ignored inflation, obsessed over trans people and decide to go with a candidate who could barely string two sentences together and voters, no surprisingly, said no thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

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DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

Donald Trump has entered the chat

No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

Lol—you lost me at meritocracy! 🤣
Have you been paying attention to the idiots running this current administration? I’ll let you guess how many of them attained their positions. Hint: it wasn’t based on merit (or in many cases, intelligence or hard work).

There’s a big difference between the way the world should be (your perspective), and the way the world is. Those in power depend on your continued belief in your worldview.

Oh brother. How exactly do you think Trump became president? Do you think it was because he just knew the right people? Do you think there's a guy who's in charge of the Electoral College, and he went to boarding school back in the day with Trump, and he made this all happen because, you know, he just thought Trump was such a swell guy?

Is this satire? You can’t be serious. How do you think trump was even in a position to run for President? How do you think he got into Wharton? That idiot couldn’t get admitted through the front door, so he got into Wharton through the side door (as a transfer student from Fordham). If you think he got into Wharton because he’s brilliant, hard working, and he earned it, I’ll let you google the story behind his Wharton admission. Spoiler: It involves family wealth/connections and private school (and similar connections). I’ll stop here because you clearly need to catch up on the facts.

Bonus points: Why do you think all five of his children have only attended three universities: Penn, Georgetown, and NYU? Brilliance, hard work and merit?!? 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

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DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

Donald Trump has entered the chat

No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

Lol—you lost me at meritocracy! 🤣
Have you been paying attention to the idiots running this current administration? I’ll let you guess how many of them attained their positions. Hint: it wasn’t based on merit (or in many cases, intelligence or hard work).

There’s a big difference between the way the world should be (your perspective), and the way the world is. Those in power depend on your continued belief in your worldview.

Oh brother. How exactly do you think Trump became president? Do you think it was because he just knew the right people? Do you think there's a guy who's in charge of the Electoral College, and he went to boarding school back in the day with Trump, and he made this all happen because, you know, he just thought Trump was such a swell guy?

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be pissed if I spent $50K a year on private school and my kid didnt get into Harvard or Yale.

Why? There are around 400K seniors in private school each year, and just over 4000 spots at Harvard and Yale.

I just find some of the snobbery on this thread a little perplexing. You spent $200,000 on a high school that got your kid into a university where most of the rest of the students attended their local public high schools at a cost to them of $0. Why is that an occasion for looking down your nose?

What’s it to you how someone else spent their money? There are families that have the funds so they use them for what they consider a better overall environment and experience. That’s the case for us where our barely accredited overcrowded public school has daily fights and many other severe problems (and, yes, even a murder a few years ago).

You're missing the point. No one cares about how you spend your money. All the sneering towards public schools and pretensions towards elitism seem a bit much though when your kids end up at the same (and sometimes worse) universities as public school kids. How elite can the education be if a kid in Sioux City got into the same university after attending the school down her street?

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DP. I think you’re missing the point. Many, BUT NOT ALL, wealthy people send their children to independent prep schools for:
1. The social status that comes with being a student/alum of that school, and 2. So their children attend school with and befriend a critical mass of other wealthy children. An Ivy Plus/T20 private college degree afterwards is great, but not essential.

Sending your child to 99% of the public schools in this country doesn’t confer BOTH of those benefits (one or the other isn’t the goal).

Donald Trump has entered the chat

No, but many of you are public school parents trying to get a peak behind the prep school curtain. That’s why you’re here—and making incorrect assumptions about the true reasons many wealthy parents send their children to independent schools. I answered your question. You’re welcome.

Your view of how the world works sounds like it's straight of a 1980s movie. The world in which I live is intensely competitive and, mostly, a meritocracy. There's lots of luck involved, but, generally speaking, those who are the smartest and work the hardest rise to the top. The idea that you can shortcut your way to the top by joining the right club or (eyeroll) going to the right high school seems utterly ridiculous.

Gosh. Sounds exciting. Please tell everyone about this exciting field where merit is the only thing that matters.