There’s a proud boarding school tradition where the children of privilege tumble down the food chain of boarding schools one after the other until they assume their rightful place first at Harvard and then on Wall Street or the US Senate.
That’s why the schools exist, after all.
I find it hard to believe that someone who “felt” they weren’t being challenged at Taft or LC would “feel” certain they were being challenged at Choate, Deerfield, or Hotchkiss if they were taking the Pepsi Challenge. Vanity is a wonderful thing, and if someone truly “feels” that LC and Taft don’t have a comparable challenge for the absolute smartest kids at their respective schools, they are welcome to believe that with all their heart. Don’t make it so, tho.