Are the Northeast colleges not as popular in the DMV?

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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.

+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.

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

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In state, not instant!

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Spoken like someone who has never lived up north. "Miserable" in the cold? What a bunch of babies. And I would surely have it out with someone saying the southern "surroundings" are better as an across the board generalization.

[Anonymous]

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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.

They all have calculators on their website that will help you figure out the cost to attend. Colby in particular has committed that no student will graduate from Colby with debt--but be aware that their admittance rate is something like 8%.

--mother of Colby student

[Anonymous]

My public school kid is applying almost exclusively to schools in the NE—mostly LACs but a couple of public, too. Lots of interest overlap with friends.

FWIW, I grew up in this area and feel like very few kids went to those schools and that they are much more popular around here today.

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Anonymous wrote:My public school kid is applying almost exclusively to schools in the NE—mostly LACs but a couple of public, too. Lots of interest overlap with friends.

FWIW, I grew up in this area and feel like very few kids went to those schools and that they are much more popular around here today.

These schools are growing in popularity in Nova especially as people realize that they have good placement on Wall Street. That said more people will be interested in UVA because of cost. Another factor I find is Ivies or schools with bigger names are more attractive to high achieving first generation kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

They all have calculators on their website that will help you figure out the cost to attend. Colby in particular has committed that no student will graduate from Colby with debt--but be aware that their admittance rate is something like 8%.

--mother of Colby student

No debt, but only because they expect you to have been saving significant amounts since the kids were fetuses. I could send my kid to our state flag ship, offer them 100k to get started in life and still have more left over than if they attended Colby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My public school kid is applying almost exclusively to schools in the NE—mostly LACs but a couple of public, too. Lots of interest overlap with friends.

FWIW, I grew up in this area and feel like very few kids went to those schools and that they are much more popular around here today.

Those schools have always attracted kids from this area. If you went to private school or one of the affluent publics, then you knew people who attended them

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Over half of students nationwide live less than 100 miles from where they go to college and only 16 percent go to college more than 500 miles away.

A school like Amherst is nearly 400 miles away.

This alone is why you see comparatively fewer kids from the DMV than NYC attending NE colleges. It’s not so much a matter of preference. It’s simple geography.

You all basically live in a bubble.

[Anonymous]

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over half of students nationwide live less than 100 miles from where they go to college and only 16 percent go to college more than 500 miles away.

A school like Amherst is nearly 400 miles away.

This alone is why you see comparatively fewer kids from the DMV than NYC attending NE colleges. It’s not so much a matter of preference. It’s simple geography.

You all basically live in a bubble.

Wrong - it is 2023 - not 1940.

[Anonymous]

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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!

No, there is actually some truth to this.

[Anonymous]

We are happy that SLAC are not very popular in our public high school. DC only applies to LAC and got in almost all with generous aid.

[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.

Unless it involves vacationing at Kiawah in the summer