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They do require an extensive house. Am expensive house gets you into a top public school that feeds into a top college, and makes you neighbors and friends with
by tamana 11y ago
They do require an extensive house. Am expensive house gets you into a top public school that feeds into a top college, and makes you neighbors and friends with rich people who can get you a good job or a wealthy spouse.
- JabavuAdams 11y agoThis is a real thing. I like to call our current house "our parental overreaction". Even here, though, there's an easy trade-off. Expensive house in good public school catchment, or cheap house + private school. But, don't do both if you're stretched.
- rayiner 11y agoNo public schools "feed into a top college." I went to a public HS regularly ranked #1 in the country, and students went to exactly the colleges you'd expect based on their SAT/GPA.
- turar 11y agoI'd imagine students at lower ranked schools had lower SATs scores, and thus didn't get to similar colleges.
- tamana 11y agoIvy League school admission offices literally have lists of preferred schools to recruit at, and give more respect to GPAs at those schools, and many of those schools are public schools. I attended one.
- SilasX 11y agoYep, and we can't decouple real estate from school access [1], because most people's wealth is tied up in their house and would lose significant value if it weren't required to send your kids to the good schools. Oops. [1] e.g. like much of Europe, let you go where you're accepted, regardless of where you live, and let the public funds follow you