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Anonymous wrote:if you can afford it, hands down the best academic preparation for a young man or woman. Additionally, the social connections my children developed attending Big3 schools (at 2 of the 3) have continuously provided a significant life benefit, both professionally and in social circles. Really prepared them for life in ways a public school never could..

Yep. ‘Nother rich cracker doing rich cracker things. Thank goodness!

sorry if the truth hurts! the big3 is a wonderful experience for most kids, and provides clear and tangible lifetime benefits - but so does the grit and perseverance that successful public school kids are required to develop - neither path is “better”, only different

Let’s not overstate the Big3 benefits…poor kids that go to a Big3 really don’t get much lifetime benefit unless they are able to cross the demographic divide (which most don’t). Even UMC get few lasting benefits.

It’s the same complaint about the poor kids going to Ivy schools and can never fully benefit because they just don’t have the ability to jump the income chasm.

Absolutely untrue. Let’s deal in facts here, not your uninformed opinion.

Stacy Dale, a mathematician at Mathematica Policy Research, and Alan Krueger, an economist at Princeton University, explore the long-term effects of school choice on two groups of students—one that attended college in the 1970s and another in the early 1990s.

The paper found, among other things, that “the most selective schools really do make an extraordinary difference in life earnings for ‘black and Hispanic students’ and ‘students who had parents with an average of less than 16 years of schooling.’” The article continues that despite the fact that it is easier to get into elite schools if you are wealthy or a legacy student, minority and first-generation students are likely to benefit the most from going to an elite undergraduate institution because “minority students from less-educated families are more likely to rely on colleges to provide the internship and job networks that come automatically from living in a rich neighborhood with wealthy parents.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/what-is-an-elite-college-really-worth/521577/

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure College admission counselors see a DMV Big 3 app and think "cha-ching", here's a full pay.

Bingo

Why is it a bad thing if our family pays full tuition for our kids? Where does financial assistance come from? Tax dollars, donations to the college? Why the hate?

No hate. Plenty of amusement, though, when private school parents brag about the great admissions results without acknowledging the fact that being full pay gets their kids into good colleges where equally “qualified” kids who need aid are not admitted or cannot attend due to the cost.

Kids who go to expensive private schools get admitted to expensive private colleges. Quelle surprise!

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Anonymous wrote:if you can afford it, hands down the best academic preparation for a young man or woman. Additionally, the social connections my children developed attending Big3 schools (at 2 of the 3) have continuously provided a significant life benefit, both professionally and in social circles. Really prepared them for life in ways a public school never could..

Yep. ‘Nother rich cracker doing rich cracker things. Thank goodness!

sorry if the truth hurts! the big3 is a wonderful experience for most kids, and provides clear and tangible lifetime benefits - but so does the grit and perseverance that successful public school kids are required to develop - neither path is “better”, only different

Let’s not overstate the Big3 benefits…poor kids that go to a Big3 really don’t get much lifetime benefit unless they are able to cross the demographic divide (which most don’t). Even UMC get few lasting benefits.

It’s the same complaint about the poor kids going to Ivy schools and can never fully benefit because they just don’t have the ability to jump the income chasm.

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Anonymous wrote:if you can afford it, hands down the best academic preparation for a young man or woman. Additionally, the social connections my children developed attending Big3 schools (at 2 of the 3) have continuously provided a significant life benefit, both professionally and in social circles. Really prepared them for life in ways a public school never could..

I have a big 3 graduate and yes great preparation, but the connections are for only those who happen to make friends within the inner circle. Very hard to do this. No connections for my DC.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure College admission counselors see a DMV Big 3 app and think "cha-ching", here's a full pay.

Bingo

Why is it a bad thing if our family pays full tuition for our kids? Where does financial assistance come from? Tax dollars, donations to the college? Why the hate?

No hate. Plenty of amusement, though, when private school parents brag about the great admissions results without acknowledging the fact that being full pay gets their kids into good colleges where equally “qualified” kids who need aid are not admitted or cannot attend due to the cost.

Kids who go to expensive private schools get admitted to expensive private colleges. Quelle surprise!

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing if our family pays full tuition for our kids? Where does financial assistance come from? Tax dollars, donations to the college? Why the hate?