[ventana]

Morning John. My son just graduated from a Roman Catholic all male high school in New Jersey. An excellent place. Out of his class, the top twenty boys were outstanding. Among the top five, there were two with perfect 1600's on their SAT's. They had GPA's over 100% (weighted due to honors courses). They were good athletes and they had outstanding extracurriculars, including community service. Only one, the valedictorian, and a Jewish young man as a point of interest, was even wait-listed at Harvard. The whisper at guidance is, these boys are discriminated against because they are Catholic and overwhelmingly white males. But principally because the are Catholic Christians. Now, in my local public school, kids with less credentials have made it into Princeton and Harvard. The bias now is skewing towards the public schools. Of course at my son's school his peers made it into Georgetown, Holy Cross, Boston College, Amherst (outrageously hard to get into nowadays) Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and Rice to name some. Frankly, I think schools like Rice are going to ultimately topple Harvard from their unique position. Although Harvard will perennially have a certain cache. Like Tiffany, Disney, and
Kleenex, Harvard has incredible branding but the style may outlast the substance. V's wife.

[JohnHuang2]

G'morning backatya, friend, and CONGRATS on your son's graduation :)

[redhead]

Send him to Ave Maria or Steubenville if you want him to get a REAL education.