> I am aware of that difference. I was just struck by the number of well off
> that prefer public schools. I always assumed the rich like private
> schools...
They can't all get *in* to private schools. Oh the ultra-rich always can, of course, particularly if they're willing to go the boarding-school route -- there are cheesy boarding schools with pretentious crests that will take almost anybody, at least for a year, or until they burn down a dorm.
But the elite day schools in New York -- and I'm sure this is also true in Boston and SF and LA -- can pick and choose. And a year or two down the road, they winnow out the kids who they don't think are going to be elite-college material.
This is called "counseling out". I am not making this up.
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