<p>On a serious note - you have to balance the college issue - Ivys actively wanting to court and accept kids who did not have a lot of academic opportunities, and actively not wanting upper middle class kids, versus the Boarding Schools’ connections with colleges and their abilities to pull a rabbit out of a hat and getting a middle student into a college an average A student at a public would get into - with an issue of a great quality of life at a BS and potential hazard of going into a ps where everyone has already made friends/formed group/etc.</p>