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For Every Private School, a Superlative

Submitted by A 9th grader at CGPS, Feb 2, 2008 17:06

I don't see any line of reasoning here. What? I have to say... why harvard? My two sisters went to dalton. One now attends wesleyan, and one attends princeton. They are both brilliant and hard workers and completely satified with their schools. How can you judge the compability and worthiness of a school based soley apon their economic status or their entry to the school Harvard. The point of an education is to better yourself and mature your thoughts. And in American society, it's also to enable you to get into your college of choice. I am a student at Columbia Grammar, and I know for a fact that every kid in our senior class this year, last year, and I am sure many years before me, got into their college of choice.


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