<p>I know it's tough week for some people, so I wanted to share some interesting anecdotal evidence that boarding school has basically no impact on where you end up in life.</p>
<p>I graduated from a top boarding school long enough ago that my classmates are adults, but not so long ago that it's all totally ancient history. Had I not attended boarding school, I would have graduated from the honors program at my hometown public high school. My public high school, honors program included, was not very good, but it wasn't bad. It was adequate.</p>
<p>From my public high school honors class there are:</p>
<p>4 lawyers
6 doctors
1 Journalist
3 MBAs
1 film maker
1 artist
1 musician
1 Navy Officer
1 stay-at-home-mom
1PHD (Physics)</p>
<p>From my Boarding School circle there are:</p>
<p>5 PHDs (Political Science, Linguistics, English, Physics)
2 Doctors
2 Lawyers
2 Artists
2 Small Business owners
1 musician
1 Foreign Service Officer
0 MBAs
1 stay-at-home-mom</p>
<p>The size of my graduating class at boarding school was probably 3-4 times the size of my honors classmates in public school. I tried to correct for that by making the sample size match in numbers. But some of the skew in #'s is because there are probably people that aren't in my circle who have an MBA.</p>
<p>My point is that boarding school is not going to rocket you into a certain field or a certain college or a certain life. It's an experience that contributes to who you become, but there are a million points along the path to who you'll be as an adult, and stringing together any number of those million could land you exactly where you most want to be, with or without a prep school education. Smart, motivated people who take responsibility for themselves and their education will always do well.</p>