<p>Now wait a minute.</p>
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<p>You are making a 100% totally incorrect assumption here. You cannot, under any circumstances, assume that a parent who sends their kid to a private school values education more than a parent who sends their kid to a public school. Your statement is false. And in fact, it is really insulting to me and millions of parents. I place an extremely high value on education and my daughter went to public schools.</p>
<p>And I see no reason why a public school student can’t be as smart, amazing, talented, brilliant and accomplished as a student who goes to a private school. In fact, one of the most brilliant and accomplished students I know went to the most rinky-dink tiny rural schools in the country – although my definition of accomplished and yours are probably vastly different. </p>
<p>The most recent figures I could find is for the class of 2011 – 31 percent came from private schools. Brown accepts plenty of students from public schools. And plenty of legacy applicants went to public schools. In fact, I’m a Brown alum, many of my friends from Brown have kids there now, and I can only think of two of them whose kids went to privates.</p>