Private schoolers have 'better morals'

Well our teachers have told IGCSEs are more respected and the fact that mainly private schools do it shows you have come from a better environment which helps university applications.

P.s. When universities state that 'the background you come from does not matter' it does. My uncle works on the admissions board for Oxford, and they take in account whether the applicant has gone to a private school or not as private school applicants are usually better mannered and have better morals.

I don't see what your post has to do with morals, unis are unlikely to assess your moral standing when you apply, you are right though someone who attains good grades through a public school is likely to do better at uni than a public school equivalent, they did a study on it recently I think.

I don't see what your post has to do with morals, unis are unlikely to assess your moral standing when you apply, you are right though someone who attains good grades through a public school is likely to do better at uni than a private school equivalent, they did a study on it recently I think.

If a post on tsr gets you angry it's most likely a troll btw.

After having see somebody post this on here, I was literally shocked into silence. Is what they're saying true, or is it just another case of private school snobbery? I personally think it's a load of rubbish- surely going to a private school can work against you? (This is a hypothetical situation btw). Say two people are competeting for the same place in a course at a uni, and they're virtually identical in terms of predicted grades, work experience, interview scores etc.- the only difference between them is that one goes to a high-achieving private school and the other to a pretty crap state school. Surely the university is more likely to give the place to the comprehensive student, simply because they are likely to have worked harder for the same grades? This is what I've always heard, and I don't even go to a comprehensive- I go to a grammar school.

Post your opinions, I'm genuinely curious.

State school and public school are very different things.

In just the same way, private schools are (as unfashionable as it may be to believe) largely made of children of people who are from new money. Bankers, lawyers, people who have made themselves a success in this world. These people are incredibly likely to be highly educated...

But surely private schoolers are more mature and sophisticated, as they have been brought up in posh area, where there's perhaps less crime or something. Compared to someone who comes from quite a bad area. Personally I think universities would accept private school students. But that just my view


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all this is is a case of people who dont understand statistics.
There is a significant link between intellegence and the number of books in your house when you were a child, the success of your working life and how many museums you were taken to as a child etc etc etc.

I went to a private school... and a significant proportion of kids were b&#&#&#'s...

Got nothing to do with private school, everything to do with people in general...

Also the kind of reverse snobbery the OP mentions regarding uni admission is, believe it or not, the main reason why I and most of the people I went to school with (and still talk to, most of them I don't) just don't mention we went to a private school because for the most part it really isn't worth the hassle of being judged because of it.

I think you make a terrific post but I wonder whether this bit is true. It likely is for London day schools, though I think the characterising of bankers and lawyers as "new money" is in many cases probably inaccurate. But at private schools more generally the new money will as often have come from trade: the prosperous builder, the health club and tanning salons owner...

My strong suspicion is that you could find a lot of state grammars and high-performing comprehensives at which the parents were on the average more highly educated than their counterparts at private schools. These are the schools at which the ordnary thing is that parents are teachers and quantity surveryors and accountants in local government and so on.

But surely private schoolers are more mature and sophisticated, as they have been brought up in posh area, where there's perhaps less crime or something. Compared to someone who comes from quite a bad area. Personally I think universities would accept private school students. But that just my view

What is the causative link between living in an area with less crime and possessing a superior moral compass?

After having see somebody post this on here, I was literally shocked into silence. Is what they're saying true, or is it just another case of private school snobbery? I personally think it's a load of rubbish- surely going to a private school can work against you? (This is a hypothetical situation btw). Say two people are competeting for the same place in a course at a uni, and they're virtually identical in terms of predicted grades, work experience, interview scores etc.- the only difference between them is that one goes to a high-achieving private school and the other to a pretty crap state school. Surely the university is more likely to give the place to the comprehensive student, simply because they are likely to have worked harder for the same grades? This is what I've always heard, and I don't even go to a comprehensive- I go to a grammar school.

Post your opinions, I'm genuinely curious.

Should've expected this.