Prep school advantage (?)

College Life
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<p>Our GC said something very interesting in a meeting last week. He said that going to a prep school only gives a student a one semester advantage in college. That is, for the first semester the students from a prep school tend to do better than kids coming from public schools. They have already adjusted to being away from home, they are used to the look and feel of college, and they know how to perform academically at a higher level, but that after the first semester they lose that edge and in the end kids from public schools statistically do better than the ones from prep schools?</p>

<p>Do you think there anything to this, or do you think this is just to make us public school feel better?</p>

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<p>I guess it depends on the prep school. People who spent 4 years ar a top prep school are not only superbly prepared, but they were very top students already to have been selected by top preps. Combine that with the lack of need to go wild because they have been away from home for years and you have a major head start. They tend to do extremely well in college.</p>

<p>That said, there are brilliant kids with focus everywhere. No reason many public school kids won’t do just as well.</p>