Boarding School Hurts You?

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I thought that starting a thread to discuss the topic of small fish-big pond vs. big fish-small pond might be relevant right now given the recent posts on several existing threads including this one, but then I found this gem and I thought it might be better just to share this and encourage folks to take a look at it:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1840239-top-of-the-class-vs-bottom-of-the-class-at-a-less-competitive-school.html#latest

Among the many good posts is this:

BS is a home with a high school inside. What’s important isn’t whether or not a kid can or can’t get in somewhere, it’s whether or not the kid will thrive once he/she is in. The “right” school is also the “right” home.