If your DC is attending a #100 to #∞ ranked college, why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is hoping to!

Why? Because he wants a very specific combination of majors and classes, and to stay close to home, and this school offers both of those plus generous merit aid and a location he likes.

+1
Major, merit, and wanted to stay relatively close to home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best fit for her.

+1

Fit and finances.

Yep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason?

So she can be your kid’s boss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason?

Why do you ask?

Why do you ask?

Because OP is an @ss. There is no other reason.

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[Anonymous]

Kid at ASU Barrett Honors College.
Was admitted to 2 other state schools t70 (Penn State, Indiana) and Colorado and 1 Private (Baylor). He picked the Honors College Program at ASU after touring the campus, Honors Colelge dorm, talking to Professors. Etc. it is like a small college within a huge college. He is loving his first semester.

[Anonymous]

Because undergrad degrees don’t mean much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are over 1,000 four year colleges in the US. The question isn’t why a kid goes to 101-1,499. The question is why do you think the normal thing to do needs explaining, or apologies, or reasons? Why are you so afraid of falling out of the elite that you pathologize the normal, typical thing for a young person to do?

It's only been the "normal thing to do" for average to below average academically strong people to go to college in the last 20 years or so. Before that, people went into trades, opened business, or worked for companies.

I have the same question as OP but mine is more in the context of does it make more financial sense for people in a 101-1500 school to just start working any job after high school or go to trade school and get technical training to start moving up immediately. Start saving sooner. Not have to pay insane tuition.

Why do the 4 year education if it won't do anything for them? And possibly make their lives more difficult?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They just really liked your alma mater.

I love you.

[Anonymous]

Has good program for intended major with good internships
Merit $
Has what DC was looking for- southern, SEC school, great sports and happy student body

Got into 2 higher ranked schools, but actually program of study not as high

[Anonymous]

No idea. I haven’t looked at rankings of the schools my kid has applied to because I couldn’t care less. DC is looking for a particular major, extracurriculars, campus feel, proximity from home, etc., none of which have anything to do with rankings. (And, before you assume, DC has 3.98UW, 4.89W and 1500+ SAT.) Why is it so hard for some DCUM posters to accept that some people are not obsessed with rankings?

[Anonymous]

My friend attended a small Christian college that isn’t even ranked, but she went because she got a full ride there. She is a doctor now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason?

Have you not read the many other threads where essentially the same question is asked and people provide a wide diversity of rationales?

This thread already exists x 100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are over 1,000 four year colleges in the US. The question isn’t why a kid goes to 101-1,499. The question is why do you think the normal thing to do needs explaining, or apologies, or reasons? Why are you so afraid of falling out of the elite that you pathologize the normal, typical thing for a young person to do?

It's only been the "normal thing to do" for average to below average academically strong people to go to college in the last 20 years or so. Before that, people went into trades, opened business, or worked for companies.

I have the same question as OP but mine is more in the context of does it make more financial sense for people in a 101-1500 school to just start working any job after high school or go to trade school and get technical training to start moving up immediately. Start saving sooner. Not have to pay insane tuition.

Why do the 4 year education if it won't do anything for them? And possibly make their lives more difficult?

Why do you assume it’s T100 or bust? That a kid won’t get an education at a non-elite school? Most decent jobs now require a college degree and most people do not graduate from top schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are over 1,000 four year colleges in the US. The question isn’t why a kid goes to 101-1,499. The question is why do you think the normal thing to do needs explaining, or apologies, or reasons? Why are you so afraid of falling out of the elite that you pathologize the normal, typical thing for a young person to do?

It's only been the "normal thing to do" for average to below average academically strong people to go to college in the last 20 years or so. Before that, people went into trades, opened business, or worked for companies.

I have the same question as OP but mine is more in the context of does it make more financial sense for people in a 101-1500 school to just start working any job after high school or go to trade school and get technical training to start moving up immediately. Start saving sooner. Not have to pay insane tuition.

Why do the 4 year education if it won't do anything for them? And possibly make their lives more difficult?

Are you suggesting that an education from a college or university "ranked" 101st or more somehow doesn't do anything for the student, or might even make their life worse? What a creepy and ridiculous thing to suggest. Hat kind of sheltered life have you led that makes you write stuff like that?

[Anonymous]

Hey OP, in all seriousness, it seems like maybe you could stand to hear this: The best parts of you are not your accomplishments. You are not your job title, or the name of the school on the sticker of your car. There’s something about you that’s far bigger, more meaningful and beautiful, than any of those things. I suspect you’ll roll your eyes at this post, but I hope someday you let the truth of it in. Not only will you be more at peace when you do, the world will also come more alive for you.