Are the private schools ranked 30-70...

[Anonymous]

+1 We are full pay but would never pay $90-95k a year for BC, Tufts, or Wake. Would one want to live in a mediocre suburb and pay Greenwich or Scarsdale prices same analogy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a pretty big gap between Tufts and Tulane. Only 13% submitted an SAT to Tulane, or only 230 freshman. Of those, only 57 scored above 1500.

Contrast with Tufts, 38% submitted an SAT score, or 687 freshman. Of these, about 60% scored above 1500, for a total of 900 students.

Student quality is much higher at Tufts.

Are you the Michigan poster back at it again? 13% submitted SAT (230) and 28% submitted ACT (506 students). 25-75 ACT is 31-34. If you are going to quote statistics at least be honest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If all you care about is money yes go to a massive instate public. If you have saved and care about student life, access to professors not TA, in person classes vs online, facilities, etc etc basically the entire experience of attending the college, you pay for private. Doesn’t matter what usnews says in terms of rank.

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[Anonymous]

Depends where one lives. Wake has better reputation outside of NC and BC has better reputation outside of Massachusetts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very different types of schools. Wake- smaller enrollment, conservative, in the shadows of Duke and UNC. BC -larger 9,000 undergrads, Conservative Catholic(70%) in shadows of ND and Georgetown. Tufts-4-5 thousand undergrads, largest NESCAC school, bland

Interesting, as Wake and UNC were basically tied in the rankings for YEARS. I'm not going to get into Duke - I never even considered it and I have no interest in starting a fight over it.

I would imagine Wake is probably more conservative now as the tuition has gone up. Kids were mostly apolitical when I was there. My sorority was a pretty good mix of views. Many of my friends who were on the R side then have come more towards the middle. I don't think any of them are boosters of the current potus.

Just correcting a few errors in the prior two posts:

Wake is less conservative than a few decades ago because the percentage of kids not from the south has greatly increased.

Nor is it in the shadow of UNC. In state kids see UNC differently than oos because it just isn’t that hard to get in, especially with kids coming from the more rural parts of the state. Duke, different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends where one lives. Wake has better reputation outside of NC and BC has better reputation outside of Massachusetts.

20 percent of the kids at Wake are from North Carolina. It does just fine with in-staters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worth the investment going forward? I'm talking about Tufts, BC, Tulane, Wake, Brandies etc.
Their lower endowments make me concerned they'll lose brand power in the Trump era; while costing the same as T20/25 schools. If DC can't get into Georgetown or similar, should they just go to UMD?

"Just" go to UMD? If your DC is considering privates in T30-70 you mentioned (which BTW are great schools for the right kids) then unlikely that they have what it takes to get in UMD. If your DC is in-state and from the W schools, anything less than UW 4.0 is a red flag for UMD admission, and that is for EA round. Zero chance to be accepted in RD round. If in-state and from a non W school outside Montgomery County, then much better chance. If you are out of state and full pay, then your DC chances in getting the T30-70 schools mentioned is significantly greater than getting to UMD as OOS.

For reference look at the CDS UMDCP (92% admitted has UW GPA 4.0). Compare that to the CDS of the schools mentioned above. Again, those schools provide great educational value for the right students.

[Anonymous]

All these types of schools, BC, Tulane, Emory, Miami, GWU provide a great education. Many spend $20k or $30k a year on Catholic schools, so paying for a private school for a large percentage of people is part of the privilege of having money.

[Anonymous]

Disagree about Wake vibe. Many of those Northern full pay families going to Wake are still conservative definitely not liberals. Refer to thread on here recently about Wake crowning Homecoming King and Queen. Liberals had a field day mocking Wake.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Worth the investment going forward? I'm talking about Tufts, BC, Tulane, Wake, Brandies etc.
Their lower endowments make me concerned they'll lose brand power in the Trump era; while costing the same as T20/25 schools. If DC can't get into Georgetown or similar, should they just go to UMD?

"Just" go to UMD? If your DC is considering privates in T30-70 you mentioned (which BTW are great schools for the right kids) then unlikely that they have what it takes to get in UMD. If your DC is in-state and from the W schools, anything less than UW 4.0 is a red flag for UMD admission, and that is for EA round. Zero chance to be accepted in RD round. If in-state and from a non W school outside Montgomery County, then much better chance. If you are out of state and full pay, then your DC chances in getting the T30-70 schools mentioned is significantly greater than getting to UMD as OOS.

For reference look at the CDS UMDCP (92% admitted has UW GPA 4.0). Compare that to the CDS of the schools mentioned above. Again, those schools provide great educational value for the right students.

The acceptance rate for UMD is twice that of any of the privates mentioned. It is indeed an easier admit, even with the rampant grade inflation In Montgomery county public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disagree about Wake vibe. Many of those Northern full pay families going to Wake are still conservative definitely not liberals. Refer to thread on here recently about Wake crowning Homecoming King and Queen. Liberals had a field day mocking Wake.

My kid goes to Wake, this just isn’t true. If anything, it is moderate. Not sure why “liberals” would mock a Homecoming award based on service to the community, think it is the usual trolls or some other internet weirdos. Perhaps you.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake, BC, and Tulane are known as full pay safety schools for lots of private high school kids. Go to reputable state flagships and save the money for grad school.

Strange. BC's average SAT is 1490 with a 15% acceptance rate. 4,421 applied ED, with only 1,331 being accepted. Keep telling yourself that it is a "safety" school. After a while, you might actually believe it.

Safety/Match for T25s

[Anonymous]

Save the money. UNC and UMass outcomes are better or equal to Wake and BC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All these types of schools, BC, Tulane, Emory, Miami, GWU provide a great education. Many spend $20k or $30k a year on Catholic schools, so paying for a private school for a large percentage of people is part of the privilege of having money.

Stop trying to elevate mediocre schools by adding Emory into it. Its very transparent. If Tufts and BC were comparable to a T25, they would be in the T25.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a pretty big gap between Tufts and Tulane. Only 13% submitted an SAT to Tulane, or only 230 freshman. Of those, only 57 scored above 1500.

Contrast with Tufts, 38% submitted an SAT score, or 687 freshman. Of these, about 60% scored above 1500, for a total of 900 students.

Student quality is much higher at Tufts.

Tulane has way more attractive people

Tulane has more to offer than tufts as privates in this range are just as much lifestyle plays as educational plays.

Long Tulane short tufts