The horror stories I’m hearing from colleagues at work have me terrified. My boss is even pulling his kids out of public school to put them in private since the counselors and systems there have much better connections with the good schools. Granted he’s looking at mostly private universities, which I don’t want to rule out, but I’m also a product of a pretty good state school so I won’t rule those out either. My savings plan for my kids has been to be able to flat out pay off state schools, and if they end up going somewhere more expensive then just figuring out as we go.
These things like Early Decision and these other arbitrary things that didn’t exist when I went through are making it seem like it’s all a lottery and I find that to be completely unacceptable. It doesn’t feel like a meritocracy anymore, it feels like an opaque black box that affects the trajectory of someone’s life.
