Are the Northeast colleges not as popular in the DMV?

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Those schools are even less popular for kids from the west coast.

The sticker price is outrageous for those schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Those schools are even less popular for kids from the west coast.

The sticker price is outrageous for those schools.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those schools are even less popular for kids from the west coast.

The sticker price is outrageous for those schools.

NP. I would imagine the strength of the UC system and distance are the main factors. I'm sure I'm missing some but you do have your share of $80k+ schools like the Claremont schools, Caltech, Pepperdine, Occidental, Lewis and Clark, Santa Clara etc. Unless of course they are filled with east coasters?? IDK

[Anonymous]

This is the weirdest thread. DMV who do not go to a local mid-Atlantic school are most likely to go to Northeast colleges. They are still popular as they have always been and kids that get into them go to them. They have gotten more competitive so kids that don't get into them go elsewhere. Some of those places are in the midwest, some are in the south, some are in the west. But it's not like there's been a shift in preferences--look at the applications, acceptances, enrollments. Different schools are on the radar at different points, but the overall pattern is still very Northeast-heavy.

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Anonymous wrote:Those schools are even less popular for kids from the west coast.

The sticker price is outrageous for those schools.

Again totally wrong.

For example, California is the third largest for the presumably most popular private school in the DMV area, Northeastern, after Massachusetts and New York/New Jersey. Yes, I was surprised that it was very popular among kids from California/West Coast.

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/northeastern-university/student-life/diversity/chart-geographic-breakdown.html

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Anonymous wrote:Those schools are even less popular for kids from the west coast.

The sticker price is outrageous for those schools.

Again totally wrong.

For example, California is the third largest for the presumably most popular private school in the DMV area, Northeastern, after Massachusetts and New York/New Jersey. Yes, I was surprised that it was very popular among kids from California/West Coast.

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/northeastern-university/student-life/diversity/chart-geographic-breakdown.html

My kid's roommate was from LA.
It's very popular in California.

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest is only starting high school this fall and I went to college over twenty years ago. It seems like the kids we know from the DMV go to Ivy, UVA, UMD and other publics. We hear of students going to Penn State or UC schools but not so many going to Tufts, Swarthmore, Amherst, Colby, Fordham, Vassar type schools. DH and I are both from the Northeast. My high school had lots of kids going to NYU, Tufts, BC, BU and liberal arts colleges in the Northeast.

Wondering if these Northeast colleges just aren’t popular from the DMV.

Are kids not applying or not getting accepted or not going after being accepted?

The issue is cost. The schools you note are very, very expensive. My child will be looking at those schools but I don't know if we can afford for her to go there.

The issue is both - cost and selectivity.

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I suggest focusing on obtaining an acceptance first, and then you can consider the tuition fees. Sometimes, the initial sticker price is not indicative of what you'll actually end up paying. As long as you're not under any binding commitments, there's no need to commit if the expenses are too high.

In our case, we fall into the upper-middle income bracket, which means we don't receive any financial assistance from state schools. However, we were fortunate enough to receive a very generous financial aid package from one of the schools in the Northeast. In fact, we're paying less than what we would for a state school education.

The school is quite far away, but there are options such as taking a nonstop Amtrak train or a flight that conveniently drops you off at a T connection point, which is Boston's subway system.The monthly unlimited T pass priced at $90, and there's a possibility of student discounts that could make it even more affordable.

PP, would you mind sharing the name of the school?

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Anonymous wrote:Many selective northeast lacs are over $80K per year and don’t generally do merit aid. DMV has a lot of doughnut hole families with kids eyeing grad school.

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+1 Paying for multiple kids to attend an 80k a year school just isn't in the cards unless you are very upper upper middle class or poor enough to get a free ride. If price is a factor, the New England SLACs are probably out of consideration.

Not necessarily true. Our HHI is 140k, and Wesleyan's offer was just slightly more than instant umd.

That's well and good for you but wouldn't happen to someone with HHI around $200K and 3 kids to educate. The schools cost to much to have such terrible weather.

Yes, that is about the worst situation to be in - too much $$ (?) for financial aid at top 50 schools unless your kid is smart and talented and lucky enough for an Ivy. We visited a Southern private that is almost $90k a year. Something like 2/3 of the student body does not even apply for aid and yet they only fund Pell Grant type need - so the kids think you are either rich or poor, not in between. Yet they pay former football coach $14M per year, millions to top admin even though it is a lower cost of living state. Yet they hang banners quoting Emerson that “Doing Well is the Result of Doing Good.” I found it elitist and sickening.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't give merit scholarships and most people cannot afford them.

This! Southern schools give merit aid - other southern schools are willing to give money to good students. Yes Of course if you can afford it I personally think the more elite schools are in the northeast

Exactly. OP, how difficult is it to wrap your head around the fact that many families either cannot afford and/or stomach $350k over four years? My spouse & I both went to private schools—one top 10 & one regional LAC. We cannot fathom spending such a large chunk of our income on NE schools when high-quality education is available for a fraction of the price.
If the need-met schools want to create a donut hole environment, let them.

I get this response generally, but wasn't OP's question why students in the DC area don't apply in larger numbers to northeastern colleges? Families in the northeast face the same difficulties paying for a $350k tuition bill as those here in DC do. (at that price point, the extra $750/year in transportation costs isn't the make or break factor)

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Anonymous wrote:They don't give merit scholarships and most people cannot afford them.

This! Southern schools give merit aid - other southern schools are willing to give money to good students. Yes Of course if you can afford it I personally think the more elite schools are in the northeast

Exactly. OP, how difficult is it to wrap your head around the fact that many families either cannot afford and/or stomach $350k over four years? My spouse & I both went to private schools—one top 10 & one regional LAC. We cannot fathom spending such a large chunk of our income on NE schools when high-quality education is available for a fraction of the price.
If the need-met schools want to create a donut hole environment, let them.

I get this response generally, but wasn't OP's question why students in the DC area don't apply in larger numbers to northeastern colleges? Families in the northeast face the same difficulties paying for a $350k tuition bill as those here in DC do. (at that price point, the extra $750/year in transportation costs isn't the make or break factor)

The basic answer is that the OP was wrong--kids in the DMV area DO apply predominately to Northeastern colleges compared to any other region outside the mid-Atlantic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those schools are even less popular for kids from the west coast.

The sticker price is outrageous for those schools.

+1

And depending on the school, the entitlement vibe is off the charts, which can be a huge turnoff to many prospective students and their families.

[Anonymous]

Schools like UVA, William&Mary and VA Tech in-state are a better bang for the buck for VA residents.

We have had the talk about expensive SLACs and UVA/WM better choices. Some SLACs were also too small and alternative/woke.

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of public school kids go to these schools too, there are just more public school kids, so they spread their wonderful selves all over.

This. My kids applied to or are applying to predominantly NE schools. Lots of kids going there, but lots spread all over too.

Same. We are a family that HATES high heat/humidity. DC is as south as any of us will go.

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ha! that is why students choose other schools outside of Virginia!

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Anonymous wrote:They don't give merit scholarships and most people cannot afford them.

This! Southern schools give merit aid - other southern schools are willing to give money to good students. Yes Of course if you can afford it I personally think the more elite schools are in the northeast

Exactly. OP, how difficult is it to wrap your head around the fact that many families either cannot afford and/or stomach $350k over four years? My spouse & I both went to private schools—one top 10 & one regional LAC. We cannot fathom spending such a large chunk of our income on NE schools when high-quality education is available for a fraction of the price.
If the need-met schools want to create a donut hole environment, let them.

I get this response generally, but wasn't OP's question why students in the DC area don't apply in larger numbers to northeastern colleges? Families in the northeast face the same difficulties paying for a $350k tuition bill as those here in DC do. (at that price point, the extra $750/year in transportation costs isn't the make or break factor)

The basic answer is that the OP was wrong--kids in the DMV area DO apply predominately to Northeastern colleges compared to any other region outside the mid-Atlantic.

They are also very popular from West Coast.

Data was provided.

Why are people still pretending to be dumb?