kleinbl00, I gotta warn you too, private school kids can be almost as bad. Private schools can be very homogenous, and so I've seen a lot of kids struggle with having to interact with people who they don't have as many shared experiences with—kids from different social classes, or races, or even just different parts of the city.

Of this I have no doubt. My interests are purely machiavellian - having observed the social curve that the private school kids are on vs. the social curve the public school kids are on, even the trailer-trash scholarship kids from Lakeside are kickin' ass over the Valedictorians.

'cuz here's the thing: we make much of all this multicultural, get-along-with-everybody bullshit and having grown up on the wrong side of the tracks, and having been friends with all those kids, I can say with no quaver in my voice that the culturally insensitive Buffy and Chip WASP twins with their tennis lessons and French tutors?

Yeah, they rule the world. And those of us who knew how to get into the hispanic parties? We get to watch.

I'ma let that kid do whatever she wants socialization-wise. But academia? Eyes on the prize.