Can Anybody Do It?
I went to a public high school in a reguler, upper-middle class neighborhood, and some kid in my graduating class went to Harvard. Why are parents spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on private schools? Can't anyone, with the right amount of effort, get into the Ivy's?
kids just don’t think anymore do they
Short answer is yes. I went to a public HS in an upper middle suburb like you, and like you we’d send our top ~3-5 out of 180 to HYPSM and the next best 20-30 would go to targets.
But the prep school kids did a little better and we know this because many of our classmates transferred to prep in high school and we saw where they ended up. Some were average in our school and wouldn’t have gotten into targets but got into low targets (think Michigan) as a result of going to prep. Saw that every year.
If you’re gunning for Harvard you have to be so strong anyway that it probably doesn’t matter where you go. But for most schools prep gives a little edge.
Do you want a 1 in 1000 chance or a 5 in 100 chance?
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