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What are your university plans? The more interested you are in going to a highly selective university or studying something very challenging there, the more valuable the academic strength of your current school.
Do you think the "outstanding" academics at your current school mean that you would actually learn more there than at the public school, or only that you would be better credentialled or something of the kind?
My impression is that later in life many people remain in touch with their friends from university and rather few with their friends from high school. If I'm right about this, the social advantages of the public school are shortish-term only. (That doesn't make them unimportant.)
Do you have a strong sense of how friendly the other people at the public school would be to someone newly arrived from a fancy independent school? That seems like something that could be a source of tension (e.g., they may expect you to think you're better than they are, somehow, which can cause trouble even if you have no such attitude).
Is there anyone else who has a say in where you go? (Parents, legal guardians, ...) If so, what do they think, and what do you think about what they think?
Does that hold true now that we have magical facebook?
As someone who uses facebook a lot and has many far-away friends from sleep away camp, it seems like it only forces you to keep in touch if you want to be.
I don't facebook alone creates strong social connections. I'm facebook friends with a lot of the people from my school by I have little to do with them in my daily life.
It was more about ease-of-access to people you wouldn't keep in contact with. Facebook just makes it much easier.
Good point nonetheless.
I have no idea. I would generally expect people to have more in common with others they meet at university than with others they meet in high school (more segregation by ability via university choice; more segregation by interests via subject choice) and to choose friends who are more likely to remain a good match in terms of personality, interests, etc. (people can change a lot between, say, age 16 and age 20) -- it's not just a matter of it being easier to lose touch with your high-school friends than with your university friends.