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					Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall   | 
	
 If you can afford Exeter or Choate and the kid gets in, it's a leg up on getting into a fancy University later.  Other than that, I struggle to find a justification for the expense.  
(I guess it's a way to ensure your high schooler gets a better quality of drugs to experiment with before college.  And maybe she'll get to meet a few people with really nice vacation houses she can visit on holidays.  But that can probably be bought much more cheaply at a decent local private day school.)