Will I feel challenged at schools like Columbia, Cornell, and Penn?
Another factor is how well you were prepared in high school. I went through a very rigorous prep school program, so the first year was relatively easy for me because I was used to studying for hours every night.
What is it like to study in an elite boarding school?
It’s pretty fun, actually.At the NE boarding schools, there are a lot more opportunities and things you might not get to do at regular private or public schools. Often the setting is really pretty, like St. Georges or Tabor, and the setting can really affect your mood positively. Small classes mean that you get to know your classmates really well and it is easier to make friends. The sports and academics are usually stellar, I’d say the only downside is the price, but most offer financial aid.It is pretty much a guarantee that you will end up at a good college because all of the schools have counselors for that and ample academic support. Some are smaller than others, and I’d say the experience of a smaller school is much better. There are many travel opportunities, and that is one of the best things.It is fun to be away from your parents and immersed in a different culture. If you are an independent kid you would most likely enjoy that aspect.
I have read the Barron Trump's school costs $600k per year, how does a school justify those charges from a $100k per year school?
This is why people are concerned that critical thinking skills are on the wane.It is possible to spend as much as you want on a private education, given the ability to donate, but no school can reasonably cost this.Even in NYC, total compensation for a top teacher is not going to be much over $150,000/year (including all benefits, employer-paid payroll taxes, employment insurance, other business expenses, etc.). Most will make far less. Someone spending $600,000 could hire four top full-time instructors for their child. Even if they have to pay an enormous premium to attract teachers to teach only one child and paid $200,000 in total compensation, they would have three teachers to focus solely on one student. Admittedly, most parents would want their kids to have a social circle, but this gives a slightly modified definition to the concept of “homeschooled”.Others have noted that tuition for Barron Trump’s school is about $47,000, which is about what a top prep school costs. Facts about Groton School shows that this school, one of the best-regarded and most competitive in the nation, only (for relative values of “only”) charges $55,700 for boarding, and $43,400 for day students. By comparison, Sidwell Friends School in DC charges about $40,000; this is where all “First Children” I know of in my lifetime have gone.Even top business, law, and medical schools don’t charge $100,000/year tuition, let alone $600,000/year in 2017. However, there are always ways to spend money.
What would progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt think of today's Republican Party?
ON PUBLIC WELFARE "The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens." "The fundamental thing to do for every man is to give him a chance to reach a place in which he will make the greatest possible contribution to the public welfare. Understand what I say there. Give him a chance, not push him up if he will not be pushed. Help any man who stumbles; if he lies down, it is a poor job to try to carry him; but if he is a worthy man, try your best to see that he gets a chance to show the worth that is in him." " The man who wrongly holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare, who rightly maintains that every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it."