Geographical diversity vs. being unprepared for college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You would move to an undesirably state, known for bad education(and probably COVID and everything else), just to TRY to get your child into a more highly ranked school on USNWR??

Now I have heard EVERYTHING. Get some help, to figure out what matters.

You are a jerk. Completely sensible line of thinking, Op. Also, people other places tend to be NICE unlike the Pp. We just moved to a rural area and are very happy we did. Our logic was not dissimilar…

[Anonymous]

Moving to give your kid geographic diversity for college applications is a really extreme action. Sorry, it just is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving to give your kid geographic diversity for college applications is a really extreme action. Sorry, it just is.

Yes and the chance of it working is slim.

[Anonymous]

The FB pages for parents my kids' colleges are full of parents bemoaning how underprepared their public school kids are compared with the private school kids.

My kids went to public school in the DC burbs and are fine, but I wouldn't assume that's true of all public school graduates. A HS in a college town, though? Probably better prepared that a lot of private school graduates. Private doesn't always mean good.

[Anonymous]

If you’re a true stand out from a a very, very underrepresented state, that’s an advantage. However, by and large, the top 25s need to know you can succeed at their school. And that can be a harder threshold to cross coming from an unknown or weak high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The FB pages for parents my kids' colleges are full of parents bemoaning how underprepared their public school kids are compared with the private school kids.

My kids went to public school in the DC burbs and are fine, but I wouldn't assume that's true of all public school graduates. A HS in a college town, though? Probably better prepared that a lot of private school graduates. Private doesn't always mean good.

There is no general assumption to be made about public vs private HS that would be valuable regarding preparation for college.

The important nothing is to look at the quality if the individual HS be it public or private. Is it rigorous? Does it have a track record of prepping student for too colleges? Does it invest enough resources per student? Etc.

These qualities are more important than public vs private. There are great schools and poor quality schools in both categories.