<p>Princess’Dad, I didn’t misread you. You agreed that “BS’s are significantly better than public schools in general” but you chose YOUR public school, which has great diversity and so forth, over a boarding school (part of my question was, over Mercersburg, or over Exter/SPS as well???) for “many reasons”. </p>
<p>Going to Andover without going to Harvard is not the same thing as going to Andover and then going to a state school; a more likely scenario for someone who’d otherwise make her way to Harvard assuming going to a public school really makes a difference would be going to Andover and then going to Cornel, JHU, NYU, Michigan, etc. That is a more realistic comparison.</p>
<p>I don’t think a student can get best education possible ANYWHERE. There may be Harvard admits anywhere but not the best education.</p>