<p>… I go to one of those schools, and let me assure you, we take the same AP courses as every other student who can, does. My school gives out plenty of scholarships and there are many smart kids. We have to fill out applications, financial aid forms, and undergo the scrutiny of the admissions officers at top schools JUST like public-schooled students do. Oh, and compete against 40 of our classmates for any given school.</p>
<p>Are all 900 applying to all 25 top schools? Most likely not. All 275 of my classmates are, and that’s not bragging, it’s complaining (I’ll admit it).</p>
<p>I’m not here to argue, I’m just sick of people ragging on private schools. They exist, get used to it. They house a lot of driven, smart kids who, believe it or not, can’t necessarily pay their way into college.</p>
<p>Nobody’s ragging on private schools. We’re sick of reading about how great they are compared to public schools. Nobody cares because, when it comes down to it, we’ll all be on a level playing field come college application time.</p>
<p>^ Bad analogy amb3r</p>
<p>Large public schools are highly stratified compared to private schools. Selective private schools usually have many more well qualified students than large public schools. Open enrollment causes schools to have an above group and then average and below average. You really can’t compare everyone in a public to a private like that. Can you really say that if you’re in the top 10% at an average public school and maintain the same rank at school on that list? It’s possible, but there’s definitely a difference.</p>
<p>I don’t see why people always assume that private schools are for the rich and snotty. A lot of good private schools offer financial aid and scholarships, too…</p>
<p>Yeah, but our point to Mr. Condescending who started the thread was that the best public school students are on par with the best private schoolers.</p>
<p>Similarly, we are sick of people boosting their self-asteem by posting how good their school is, or over hyping private schools.</p>
<p>I couldn’t agree more, NickBarr. It’s ridiculous… they’re all just high-school, make of it what you will and do the work if you like. Being at my school is really difficult because even as a straight-A student, you can’t predict being valedictorian or even what decile you’re in.</p>
<p>And good point, asinine.</p>
<p>You can refute an argument, but you don’t need comments that say that private school kids are snotty and all that. The OP might be saying some generalizations and being a bit arrogant, but that doesn’t mean that you act the same way back by claiming that they’re all just rich kids who really aren’t that smart. Some of the comments on the first page, frankly, are more self assuming than the OP.</p>
<p>If some of the private school kids who post here could hop off their high horses and stop making meaningless threads like this one, you’d probably find a lot less animosity towards private schools.</p>
<p>True. There are some truly obnoxious ones running around CC. Appropriately, I can say the same for public-school students. Who cares where you went to high school?</p>
<p>Basically it’s the kids who obsess over high school rankings that I can’t stand. I find that it tends to be the private school kids moreso than the public school kids, but not always.</p>
<p>As in rankings within their class, or in a “best schools” list? (Those frankly **** me off)</p>
<p>The “best schools” thing. I don’t particularly care about the high school student ranking system, but the “best schools” list is just ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Agreed. I think it’s ridiculous for a list made by a small, or even large group of people to say what is “best”…</p>
<p>Private schools > Home school > Charter Schools > Internet > Madrasah > Public Schools </p>
<p>/End thread</p>
<p>my school is ranked 500 in the nation. i wish i could be elitists like you guys and go to expensive prep schools but i dont have that kind of money.</p>
<p>Why is it okay to obsess about college rankings and where we’re going to college, but then taboo to talk about prep schools? it’s important to decide where you spend 4 years of your life for hs, just like college. It’s a known fact that a lot of kids at HYP are tremendously wealthy and they have advantages in the admissions process(if they get waitlisted, dad sends a check for 2 million)</p>
<p>I found this list very interesting from the standpoint of HYP. It’s proof that those schools are very parochial, they have a preference for private school students. </p>
<p>Does Stanford and MIT similarly have a preference for private school students?</p>
<p>MIT hates private school kids. They have accepted 1 person from my school in the last 5 years, a white female who played the violin and sang. The president of MIT came to speak at my school and said “I don’t want private school kids because they bring a sense of entitlement to MIT, I would rather have raw talent from public schools,” basically verbatim</p>
<p>The tuitions are incorrect. For example, on the Brearley website, tutition is listed as $31, 300, not 22,000 for high school. Saint John’s school is about 16,800, not 12000. I would some of the other listed tuitions are under by thousands of dollars as well. How old is the article?</p>
<p>3 years old</p>