Boarding School special relationships with ivy leagues

SWHarborfan
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:33:23 +0000

You can likely google the article in the Wall Street Journal (I think it was) that gave statistics for private and public high schools and their acceptance rate to the top private (not public) colleges.

Well over 70+% of the accepted at the top colleges/universities came from public high schools. The colleges, uniformly, gave the same rationale–that kids from public schools could multi-task, had been in the “real” world, knew how to traverse the system, weren’t as likely to be “tea cups,” (e.g. fragile), and still performed! as well or better than their counterparts at independent schools.

My daughter, a senior at a top-notch private school, almost shot me when she found this out. She’d wanted to go, desperately, to the local, eclectic, huge, oft-times beleaguered, home to geniuses and future convicts, public school down the road instead of driving over a bridge to high school. Really, she wanted to roll out of bed, five minutes before the first bell.