Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This effect is achieved by rather obvious techniques. Exeter is one of America's oldest and richest prep schools, this year celebrating its 175th anniversary with the successful completion of a fund drive which gives it a per student endowment comparable to Harvard...
There are many who look at the figures and say, even if they are correct they will make no difference in the makeup and attitudes of the college. They note that a school like Exeter has a scholarship program for better than 25% of its students. Such prep school students are by no means the sons of rich men, and thus have a more than ample desire to prove themselves. They also note that more and more students attend preparatory schools nowadays. The graduates of many preparatory schools are by no means "preppie". Today even middle class parents have enough...
...these arguments in favor of the present trend, but basically the arguments are fallacious. They are based upon misconceptions about preparatory schools, Harvard's reputation, and the nation's financial condition. Although some preparatory schools have scholarship programs, the student who goes into an exclusive New England prep school is quite different from the one who leaves it. There also seems to be the assumption that everybody would like to go to a preparatory school and that everyone wants to go to Harvard. There are several million public school students in this nation, most of whom have never heard...
...this nation's public school system. Except for a few exceptional public schools, the better private schools produce students that can run academic circles around the "diamond in the rough" from a small town in New Jersey. It is true that in the first year at Harvard the prep school graduate does better work with less effort than someone from a public school. After the first year, however, the public school student usually does more work and gets the better grades...
...numerous offers of future employment from prep schools and sporting-goods stores in this area and in New York, but has not yet made any definite plans...