Are the Northeast colleges not as popular in the DMV?

[Anonymous]

One of my kids applied to Wesleyan and would have strongly considered it had she gotten in. Had zero interest in any of the other top NE liberal arts colleges because she thought they were too snobby. Ended up choosing Grinnell over Carleton, both because she liked it better and because she got a healthy amount of merit aid.

[Anonymous]

You must be public school OP. Plenty of private school kids go to those schools.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

I know people in DC’s class applied to most the schools mentioned and ended up at several of them. I can’t think of anyone who applied to southern schools. Maryland public.

[Anonymous]

This forum has a huge weather bias. Cold and snow are the devil which means high humidity and 100 degree days are desirable.

[Anonymous]

PP has it right. Why spend all that money to be miserable in the cold and damp. Too many other options with better weather and surroundings.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This forum has a huge weather bias. Cold and snow are the devil which means high humidity and 100 degree days are desirable.

This is true. We are both from the NE and hate the cold and snow, as do our kids. Neither are looking at NE schools. The weather is too depressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This forum has a huge weather bias. Cold and snow are the devil which means high humidity and 100 degree days are desirable.

A couple who both don't like 100 degree heat don't live here in the first place.

[Anonymous]

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.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This forum has a huge weather bias. Cold and snow are the devil which means high humidity and 100 degree days are desirable.

This is true. We are both from the NE and hate the cold and snow, as do our kids. Neither are looking at NE schools. The weather is too depressing.

Agree. The weather is bleak in New England from late October through March - most of the school year. The cold is biting. And don't forget the lack of light. Still dark at 8 am. And the sun is down around 4. And even when there is daylight, it's mostly grey.

Then add the price tags. $80,000 today. $95,000 in four years. Almost no merit aid. And for what? This isn't the 80s and 90s. It's perfectly acceptable to go to school in the South, Midwest, and West Coast. Why choose some remote town in Maine for a school most of the world has never heard of.

The only people I know who are interested in SLAC schools in NE are very wealthy and very waspy. They don't seem to hold much appeal for anyone else.

[Anonymous]

I’m from California and I’ve noticed that not as many kids from here apply to California schools as the kids from California did. I wonder why?

Duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Families don't have enough money for those schools. The military folks in northern virginia are use to a free education, so they aren't paying a cent more than they have to.

What an ignorant post!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you are not very bright.

You went to high school in the Northeast. It is no wonder that more people from your high school went to Northeast colleges. We are the mid Atlantic. So it is less likely that our kids are going to go to school in the northeast.

Speak for yourself. All the colleges OP mentioned get plenty of applicants and students from the mid Altantic as well as nationally. We're not that far!

It really comes down to the circles OP moves in. Go to an private school or affluent suburban school with a strong elite college placement, you'll see those names mentioned all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1.

+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.