Where do smart kids go now?

[Anonymous]

I’ve recently learned that excellent grades and top test scores is not what prestigious/expensive colleges are looking for. I don’t really care about prestige, and I’d rather save my money, but my smart kid would like to study math with a bunch of other smart kids. Some weed-out is ok, but preferably not too cut-throat.

Where do the boring smart kids go?

[Anonymous]

There are smart kids at almost every school. You just have to take the higher level classes, major in the hard sciences, join the honors program, etc.

My husband and I are both honors program grads from second tier state schools. Our classmates' lives are now indistinguishable from our friends and colleagues who went to Ivy league undergrads.

[Anonymous]

Everywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are smart kids at almost every school. You just have to take the higher level classes, major in the hard sciences, join the honors program, etc.

My husband and I are both honors program grads from second tier state schools. Our classmates' lives are now indistinguishable from our friends and colleagues who went to Ivy league undergrads.

Totally agree

[Anonymous]

MIT and Caltech

[Anonymous]

Let’s put it this way. I’m smart. I went to an T20 school and majored in Math and have an IVY MBA. I now work for a Fortune 500 company with people who went to a whole range of schools.

Guess what, I work with a lot of smart people who went to a wide range of schools. Many are smarter than me. Any good college your kid chooses will be full of smart people.

[Anonymous]

Geniuses go to UMD

Smart people go to UVA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s put it this way. I’m smart. I went to an T20 school and majored in Math and have an IVY MBA. I now work for a Fortune 500 company with people who went to a whole range of schools.

Guess what, I work with a lot of smart people who went to a wide range of schools. Many are smarter than me. Any good college your kid chooses will be full of smart people.

My college freshman is not finding his pretty good college to be full of smart people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s put it this way. I’m smart. I went to an T20 school and majored in Math and have an IVY MBA. I now work for a Fortune 500 company with people who went to a whole range of schools.

Guess what, I work with a lot of smart people who went to a wide range of schools. Many are smarter than me. Any good college your kid chooses will be full of smart people.

Why is “Ivy MBA” in ALL CAPS?

[Anonymous]

If you go to a university with a good math grad program then at least the raw materials are there. Mid-tier slac, not so much.

[Anonymous]

Dh went to ivy. I went to state. We met in the same phd program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geniuses go to UMD

Smart people go to UVA

lol.

My math whiz is going to UMD - double major math and CS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dh went to ivy. I went to state. We met in the same phd program.

^^ physics

[Anonymous]

This post made me smile. My kid who worked her tail off is going to a state school with Honors She didn’t fit what the T 20 schools seem to want these days. I hope she finds pls Ty of “ smart” people there. I think she will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are smart kids at almost every school. You just have to take the higher level classes, major in the hard sciences, join the honors program, etc.

My husband and I are both honors program grads from second tier state schools. Our classmates' lives are now indistinguishable from our friends and colleagues who went to Ivy league undergrads.

You were the people I knew at my state university who were in Honors and went to prestigious graduate schools.