Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

It is tough to break the addiction to private. If you are used to paying for K-12 education, you definitely do not want to be looked down upon during the next 4 years.

Huh. Its not "looking down".
Its the right fit.
My kids went private T20 after private HS. They had public flagships options in T25 as well and passed them by.
Not the right "fit" for my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

The median student at those privates wouldn't hack it at honors programs at UF and and UGA. The profs are less involved at those privates too. Easy marks are found at private high schools and easily part with hundreds of thousands for the "prestige" of a private university outside the T35 (really the bare minimum to justify 400k in expenses over four years).

I’m a NP on this thread.
Why do you care so much? The graduates I know from schools like Wake & BC are all working on Wall Street. They’re in New York City and doing well for themselves. They probably would have the same outcome, regardless of where they went. Who cares? Their parents can easily afford it.

Thanks for your first hand observations. Statistically, a ton of grads from those schools are in student debt and most don’t work on Wall Street (I’m assuming you are including IT and HR).

I care because posters scoff at UF, a much better academic and social experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

It is tough to break the addiction to private. If you are used to paying for K-12 education, you definitely do not want to be looked down upon during the next 4 years.

Huh. Its not "looking down".
Its the right fit.
My kids went private T20 after private HS. They had public flagships options in T25 as well and passed them by.
Not the right "fit" for my kids.

There’s a world of difference between a T20 and the Wake BC Nova type school. Spending 400k on a T20 is paying for fair value.

[Anonymous]

This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

It is tough to break the addiction to private. If you are used to paying for K-12 education, you definitely do not want to be looked down upon during the next 4 years.

Huh. Its not "looking down".
Its the right fit.
My kids went private T20 after private HS. They had public flagships options in T25 as well and passed them by.
Not the right "fit" for my kids.

Yankee transplant on GA. People in the South don’t look down on the SEC schools and other top Southern flagships. Many prefer them to the Northern privates for a number of reasons. It’s probably more common for graduates of private Southern high schools to attend their state flagship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

It is tough to break the addiction to private. If you are used to paying for K-12 education, you definitely do not want to be looked down upon during the next 4 years.

Huh. Its not "looking down".
Its the right fit.
My kids went private T20 after private HS. They had public flagships options in T25 as well and passed them by.
Not the right "fit" for my kids.

There’s a world of difference between a T20 and the Wake BC Nova type school. Spending 400k on a T20 is paying for fair value.

Then don’t send your kid there, problem solved. Affordability isn’t an issue for some families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.

Agree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

The median student at those privates wouldn't hack it at honors programs at UF and and UGA. The profs are less involved at those privates too. Easy marks are found at private high schools and easily part with hundreds of thousands for the "prestige" of a private university outside the T35 (really the bare minimum to justify 400k in expenses over four years).

I’m a NP on this thread.
Why do you care so much? The graduates I know from schools like Wake & BC are all working on Wall Street. They’re in New York City and doing well for themselves. They probably would have the same outcome, regardless of where they went. Who cares? Their parents can easily afford it.

Thanks for your first hand observations. Statistically, a ton of grads from those schools are in student debt and most don’t work on Wall Street (I’m assuming you are including IT and HR).

I care because posters scoff at UF, a much better academic and social experience.

Hard to take someone seriously who thinks U of online classes offers a stellar education. They don’t even provide housing to all their freshman. Maybe you’ll find some likeminded posters over on Truth Social.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.

None of those publics offer the “experience” of a top private university.

Now, they do provide the same opportunities for graduates, but the college experience will be very different at GA Tech vs MIT or CMU.

Some may think that experience is better, some may think worse…but it will be quite different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

It is tough to break the addiction to private. If you are used to paying for K-12 education, you definitely do not want to be looked down upon during the next 4 years.

Huh. Its not "looking down".
Its the right fit.
My kids went private T20 after private HS. They had public flagships options in T25 as well and passed them by.
Not the right "fit" for my kids.

Yankee transplant on GA. People in the South don’t look down on the SEC schools and other top Southern flagships. Many prefer them to the Northern privates for a number of reasons. It’s probably more common for graduates of private Southern high schools to attend their state flagship.

I think for both Westminster and Lovett, that 88% of grads went OOS for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

The median student at those privates wouldn't hack it at honors programs at UF and and UGA. The profs are less involved at those privates too. Easy marks are found at private high schools and easily part with hundreds of thousands for the "prestige" of a private university outside the T35 (really the bare minimum to justify 400k in expenses over four years).

I’m a NP on this thread.
Why do you care so much? The graduates I know from schools like Wake & BC are all working on Wall Street. They’re in New York City and doing well for themselves. They probably would have the same outcome, regardless of where they went. Who cares? Their parents can easily afford it.

Thanks for your first hand observations. Statistically, a ton of grads from those schools are in student debt and most don’t work on Wall Street (I’m assuming you are including IT and HR).

I care because posters scoff at UF, a much better academic and social experience.

Hard to take someone seriously who thinks U of online classes offers a stellar education. They don’t even provide housing to all their freshman. Maybe you’ll find some likeminded posters over on Truth Social.

lol.
dying laughing.
so true. there are some weird interlopers on this site lately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

The median student at those privates wouldn't hack it at honors programs at UF and and UGA. The profs are less involved at those privates too. Easy marks are found at private high schools and easily part with hundreds of thousands for the "prestige" of a private university outside the T35 (really the bare minimum to justify 400k in expenses over four years).

I’m a NP on this thread.
Why do you care so much? The graduates I know from schools like Wake & BC are all working on Wall Street. They’re in New York City and doing well for themselves. They probably would have the same outcome, regardless of where they went. Who cares? Their parents can easily afford it.

Thanks for your first hand observations. Statistically, a ton of grads from those schools are in student debt and most don’t work on Wall Street (I’m assuming you are including IT and HR).

I care because posters scoff at UF, a much better academic and social experience.

I am not including IT and HR. And only talking about the few kids (males) I personally know. High-achieving kids studying finance and business at both. Ended up doing really well. Can't speak to everyone's experience, probably. They also had great personal networks coming from our private HS.
It would have likely been the same outcome wherever they went.

It doesn't matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

The median student at those privates wouldn't hack it at honors programs at UF and and UGA. The profs are less involved at those privates too. Easy marks are found at private high schools and easily part with hundreds of thousands for the "prestige" of a private university outside the T35 (really the bare minimum to justify 400k in expenses over four years).

I’m a NP on this thread.
Why do you care so much? The graduates I know from schools like Wake & BC are all working on Wall Street. They’re in New York City and doing well for themselves. They probably would have the same outcome, regardless of where they went. Who cares? Their parents can easily afford it.

Thanks for your first hand observations. Statistically, a ton of grads from those schools are in student debt and most don’t work on Wall Street (I’m assuming you are including IT and HR).

I care because posters scoff at UF, a much better academic and social experience.

WSJ ranks UF at 194 for salary outcomes while BC is at 52 and Wake is at 139.

WSJ salary rankings are entirely ROI-based, though the ROI is based on average net cost of students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

The median student at those privates wouldn't hack it at honors programs at UF and and UGA. The profs are less involved at those privates too. Easy marks are found at private high schools and easily part with hundreds of thousands for the "prestige" of a private university outside the T35 (really the bare minimum to justify 400k in expenses over four years).

I’m a NP on this thread.
Why do you care so much? The graduates I know from schools like Wake & BC are all working on Wall Street. They’re in New York City and doing well for themselves. They probably would have the same outcome, regardless of where they went. Who cares? Their parents can easily afford it.

Thanks for your first hand observations. Statistically, a ton of grads from those schools are in student debt and most don’t work on Wall Street (I’m assuming you are including IT and HR).

I care because posters scoff at UF, a much better academic and social experience.

I am not including IT and HR. And only talking about the few kids (males) I personally know. High-achieving kids studying finance and business at both. Ended up doing really well. Can't speak to everyone's experience, probably. They also had great personal networks coming from our private HS.
It would have likely been the same outcome wherever they went.

It doesn't matter.

Now some sweeping gender implications. What did the female kids there do, get an Mrs. and abstain from birth control?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly if they don’t get in a top 30 why bother. Wake Forest, Boston College Villanova, Tulane are 40-60. Go to UGA, Florida, Wisconsin or IU.

Because the actual education is far better at the private colleges. No one at our private even considers UGA, UGl, or IU.

The median student at those privates wouldn't hack it at honors programs at UF and and UGA. The profs are less involved at those privates too. Easy marks are found at private high schools and easily part with hundreds of thousands for the "prestige" of a private university outside the T35 (really the bare minimum to justify 400k in expenses over four years).

I’m a NP on this thread.
Why do you care so much? The graduates I know from schools like Wake & BC are all working on Wall Street. They’re in New York City and doing well for themselves. They probably would have the same outcome, regardless of where they went. Who cares? Their parents can easily afford it.

Thanks for your first hand observations. Statistically, a ton of grads from those schools are in student debt and most don’t work on Wall Street (I’m assuming you are including IT and HR).

I care because posters scoff at UF, a much better academic and social experience.

Hard to take someone seriously who thinks U of online classes offers a stellar education. They don’t even provide housing to all their freshman. Maybe you’ll find some likeminded posters over on Truth Social.

You’re not listening. No one is saying online classes are stellar. They are saying many flagships offer comparable or better educations than BC Nova WF, better sports, better social life, and at half the cost or less. The rankings and job outcomes bear this out.