readytobuy said:
nosuchreality said:
For admission to a decent college, the pre-requisite load of essentially mandatory AP/IB courses, SAT training and extracurricular activities (i.e. membership if not leadership or founding) of one of the 90 odd after school clubs (ranging from CosPlay or Chess, to American Heart Association to ____ student union/association/league) and community volunteer activism, aren't you kind of asking the wrong question? It's why you buy in Irvine.
yah, assuming you dont work and have time to drive your kids around to do those activities. If they can be offered on campus, thats great and what i am planning to do. i guess most people in irvine dont need two parents working.
Then you need to hire a nanny, au pair or child shuttle. By Freshman, JIMHO, they can sit home by themselves, hell, maybe even younger. The challenge is getting them home if too far. And the intent of my post was the real challenge is getting your kid between 6-10 grades (if not earlier), to the tutor, kumon, volunteer, club activity that they need to do. There's plenty of posts on the board talking about the academic arms race in Irvine and there's been discussion but places like Uni high where if your kid is taking AP, they simply won't cut it because the instructors literally skip stuff assuming the tutor/kumon/academic boot camp will pick it up.
If you're not intending to run that arms race, why pay the school premium of Irvine to put your kids in the average classes where they'll still be at a disadvantage to the others that are?