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<p>When does it stop?</p>
<p>mmm…thats not surprising…at all…
I go to boarding school. It rises every year. for boarders its about 48,000…for day students its about… 33,000…</p>
<p>I don’t understand why day students pay so much…Its really ridiculous for both actually. However, I’m not complaining…I don’t pay anything.</p>
<p>RCD is not that far from my school either. Its fairly close.
I think they are charging so much because of all the renovations they are trying to do on their land…and plus it is a very very large school. </p>
<p>when does it stop?
Never…unless parents take their children out of these schools and into different ones.</p>
<p>I’m not surprised.</p>
<p>I just saw that on Yahoo. Why would you do that. Like what are these rich parents thinking.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why it’s necessary for you to **** on prep schools. If parents can afford it, then why do you take umbrage with the institution or its practices?</p>
<p>Most boarding/prep schools are that expensive. Some of them are worth the money but others aren’t. I, going to a great prep school, find it worth it but some don’t. </p>
<p>If you think this is expensive and outrageous for schools to charge, look at the Le Rosey website.</p>
<p>It’s just like a Rolex or a nice car. People want to show that they have status so they send their kids to something like that. It wouldn’t surprise me that a lot of these kids are Saudi Princes or the daughters and sons of oil tycoons. </p>
<p>As far as education goes, there aren’t any secrets. You’re always paying for the networking, not the education itself, when you choose Harvard over State U. </p>
<p>You’re paying for the people you meet–not the curriculum.</p>
<p>^ My friend’s cousin attended Phillips Academy. It’s pretty dang expensive, but he said it’s worth it. The teachers really teach you how to think, the breadth and depth of its curriculum unsurpassed, the facilities and connections unrivaled. </p>
<p>He even said that PA helped him prepare for the stress and heavy coursework at Yale. He graduated top of his year at Yale. </p>
<p>So while not all of these private schools are worth their prices, some are.</p>
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I disagree with this. For example, at Phillips Academy Andover, I can takes courses I could take at my local high school, including 7 classes in Japanese, Linear Algebra, Survey of Music History, (yes!)Developmental Psychology, and a course in Molecular and Cellular Biology research. This course is available after you’ve taken basic Biology and Chemistry, so I could take this course in theory. I mean, this isn’t just for “networking.” To me, this sounds like heaven. Too bad I didn’t get in. :p</p>
<p>I know at Exeter, my school,they have a lot of classes a ps doesn’t. Besides, because they use Harkness and hire such incredible teachers, you can’t get that experience anywhere else.</p>
<p>Well, </p>
<p>Not necessarily true. These schools are a little overpriced however, you take A LOT of courses and such that you can never take in a regular school. For example,my school takes trips to the UN, Empire State building, and other very prominent places in NEw York city just for hands on projects that you can’t get anywhere else. </p>
<p>At my school, we also have soooo much going on everyday for the boarders. Its really cool. </p>
<p>Our teachers are pretty top notch(well most of the time…if they are not…all you have to do is complain and they are gone)</p>
<p>My school has more than networking. Also, the school provides for us the best of college consulting. Not everyone goes to an Ivy, but everyone goes to a damn good college. Not one goes to community college or something of the sort. My school makes sure that if your going to college, you will succeed. That’s what your paying for . To get into college. Yes overpriced…but for the people who pay it…its worth it. </p>
<p>Also, you have to think about how large the school’s endowment is. Most of the time the schools go up because the funds aren’t matching up…</p>
<p>On one hand, it surprises me how expensive private school is–particularly the private schools that aren’t as famous as Exeter, Andover or Choate. </p>
<p>But on the other hand, Harvard and its peers have at least one significant source of revenue that prep schools don’t: grants. For every grant, public or private, that’s administered through a university, the university takes a notable cut for “overhead.” I haven’t thought about it very long, but I wonder what other sources of revenue colleges and universities have that private preparatory schools don’t.</p>
<p>You guys are being silly. Trips to the UN to meet delegates and research published under a professor are forms of networking. That’s how you get your names on things and that’s how you meet people. That’s also what you’re paying for when you go to these schools. The best (say top 20) public universities can give you just as good of an education as HYPMS if all you want is to learn the material. You’re paying for networking in that case too.</p>
<p>^^ Actually we don’t network, or do we know the people’s name . Its a different form of LEARNING. </p>
<p>Please only say what you know if you have been to the schools, not what you think Wiscongene.</p>
<p>When we take trips all these people do is teach us something. We rarely get their name number or any type of internship. Its like a seminar. or Workshop maybe.</p>
<p>You are judging something before you even know about it.</p>
<p>What is the difference between public education and private?
The curriculum. The curriculum and Style of teaching is totally different. These people in the private schools push you to be your best, so you can get into those difficult to reach schools.</p>
<p>Don’t try to make it seem like there is nothing special about private education.</p>
<p>I go to RCS; here’s why its so expensive:</p>
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<li>Ivy Feeder</li>
</ol>
<p>This year we sent 11 kids to Cornell, 7 early. Last year it was 15 to Penn, 11 early. We also sent 5 to Duke. Columbia and Brown are up there also.</p>
<ol>
<li>Degree of Difficulty</li>
</ol>
<p>Its a pretty good school. They got rid of AP designated classes. They still have the materials and you can still take the test, but you can only take honors classes in Language and Math. And thanks to the increasing grade deflation, a B here is an A somewhere else.</p>
<ol>
<li>Demand</li>
</ol>
<p>They charge $40K because there are people willing to pay for it. And they aren’t Saudi, they’re Wall Street-types. You could only charge this much in New York because its where all the money is.</p>