This post actually makes a very good point. Here is an NCS, summa cum laude Top 20 grad, who as a young adult, acts like a teenager and people are commenting suggesting the adult should get therapy. The poster is clearly someone with great academic ability but not great life skills. This is my reason for being cautious around schools like NCS: I don’t want a young adult without great life skills who needs therapy.

Isn’t this just the start of the annual attempts by desperate DPs to thin out the competition before the applications are due to the Big 3?

This was written by a suburban mom who’d never set foot in Dalton

Anonymous wrote:Your post actually makes the case for private school- you were so well prepared that college was easy and you did well, and you had friends who were top of their class at public who struggled a lot.

The OP's post is poorly written and reasoned. It is actually an argument against both private high school and top university's because you would expect a graduate of both NCS and a top 20 university to have more sense and be more persuasive than this.

I wonder if the public school kids OP claims to have seen struggle in college write better than this.

Publics are for impoverished, overwhelmed or confused families. Private or homeschool for families with common sense and order.

Whiner or troll.

Anonymous wrote:OP I found this really interesting. All the other commenters are trying to justify their own decisions and sniping at you. A kid should have a childhood, not a grind. This made me think. Thank you.

That was my takeaway too. She thinks she could have gotten to her Top 20 school with much less stress by going to a public school. Makes sense. Another private may have been a better fit for you as well. Best of luck to you going forward OP.

OP I found this really interesting. All the other commenters are trying to justify their own decisions and sniping at you. A kid should have a childhood, not a grind. This made me think. Thank you.

Wow. You sound like a total loser + ingrate OP. Anyone who was rich enough to apply to Dalton + NCS should stop complaining.

Wait. You claim you were much better prepared (“college was easy”), yet state the education you received wasn’t superior.

Wut

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone assuming OP is a reliable narrator?

I don’t.

Anonymous wrote:Your post actually makes the case for private school- you were so well prepared that college was easy and you did well, and you had friends who were top of their class at public who struggled a lot.

My thought exactly.

Why is everyone assuming OP is a reliable narrator?

Summa cum laude is easy if you choose easy classes instead of challenging yourself in college.
Sounds like OP never learned to be self motivated and is mad that her parents and high school pressured her to work (but not learn, apparently. You can lead a horse to water, but...)

Isn’t this way too identifying? There can’t be that many women who went to Dalton and NCS. In fact, probably only one or two max over the last few decades.

Huh? Your own post made the case for private school - college was a breeze for you, and was more difficult for some kids who went to public school. That was my experience coming from private school as well - high school was much harder than my top tier college.