Are the private schools ranked 30-70...

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Anonymous wrote:For all those saying cost is not an issue - how loaded are you?! We are still in the financial planning/saving stages (oldest is in 8th grade) but we will be full pay, and we are trying to fund each kid's 529 to cover 4 years each of private tuition prior to their start date such that we can then cash flow room a and board board. We have 3 kids. That said, we will definitely encourage them to look at public schools or chase merit, so there will be some left for grad school or even just helping them launch (with a car, some rent help, etc.) I think we are doing very well financially and consider us to be pretty disciplined with our spending, but I'm wondering how so many are able to not even consider list price of colleges.

Well, we did not have three kids. We had one, because we wanted to be able to afford the very best for any children that we have. Two, we started saving for any children that we might have prior to our marriage date. We had been saving for 24 years by the time our kid went to college.

And that isn’t an accident. My husband, especially values top flight, education above most other things that you could spend your money on.
M we don’t have a family room addition and we don’t vacation in the Caribbean just because. We keep our cars for 7 to 10 years.

The very best isnt Wake though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are lucky enough to be full pay and my kids would pick Wake, BC, or Tufts over our in state, UMD, without a second thought. US News rankings are garbage. I don’t want to send my kids to the school with the most Pell grant eligible. That isn’t an indication of quality. That said, UMD is a great deal if cost is an issue.

Cal and UCLA run rings around UMD (and also Wake, BC, and Tufts) academically yet both have comparatively high percentages of undergrads on Pell grants.

Prior to the SAT being banned/made ilegal in admissions, 25% of UCLA's student body had below a 1300 on the SAT.

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Wake and BC are not worth the money. So many better options. IMO neither has any prestige decent schools but nowhere worth $95k a year for flagship state school results.

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^full pay 4 year safety schools

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Anonymous wrote:Wake and BC are not worth the money. So many better options. IMO neither has any prestige decent schools but nowhere worth $95k a year for flagship state school results.

This. Nothing wrong with them but not worth the money at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake and BC are not worth the money. So many better options. IMO neither has any prestige decent schools but nowhere worth $95k a year for flagship state school results.

All these private pretend schools in Boston and North Carolina are going to have to shut down according to the savants on DCUM. They decree that they are not worth the money. While the market says otherwise, these geniuses are going to be right this time!

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Won’t close down because some families will continue to pay big bucks for absolute mediocrity.

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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.

Emory-24
BC-36
Tufts-37
GWU- 59
Umiami-64
Tulane-69

You're trying to piss off Emorymom.

Succesfully? 😁

Doubt it, but Every Tufts parent think its a peer with Emory. They hate to be reminded Tufts is only T40.

Huh. My kid picked Tufts over Emory and UVA. You people have lost your minds. Only T40? Do you know many colleges there are in this country? And yet you draw these ridiculous distinctions based on how a corporation tells you these schools are ranked. These are all amazing schools. Just help your kids find one that your family can afford where they can thrive.

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Emory, UF, UVA , Georgetown, WashU students are about the same caliber.. could there be some who are T10 caliber ? Of course. But the vast majority aint…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Emory-24
BC-36
Tufts-37
GWU- 59
Umiami-64
Tulane-69

You're trying to piss off Emorymom.

Succesfully? 😁

Doubt it, but Every Tufts parent think its a peer with Emory. They hate to be reminded Tufts is only T40.

Huh. My kid picked Tufts over Emory and UVA. You people have lost your minds. Only T40? Do you know many colleges there are in this country? And yet you draw these ridiculous distinctions based on how a corporation tells you these schools are ranked. These are all amazing schools. Just help your kids find one that your family can afford where they can thrive.

+1

So much insecurity in these threads. All fantastic schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emory, UF, UVA , Georgetown, WashU students are about the same caliber.. could there be some who are T10 caliber ? Of course. But the vast majority aint…

No one is claiming T30-70 schools are T10 schools. Not the point of this thread at all.

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DC picked St Andrews over full pay BC. DCUM really hates St Andrews, I realize, but it's been great.

McGill would have been another good option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emory, UF, UVA , Georgetown, WashU students are about the same caliber.. could there be some who are T10 caliber ? Of course. But the vast majority aint…

UF doesn't belong there, UVa id a stretch too because of instate.
Emory, WashU, Rice, Vandy, ND, CMU, Georgetown, Cornell, and Dartmouth are the same tier in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Emory, UF, UVA , Georgetown, WashU students are about the same caliber.. could there be some who are T10 caliber ? Of course. But the vast majority aint…

No one is claiming T30-70 schools are T10 schools. Not the point of this thread at all.

None of those are T30-70. Schools ranked 30 to 70..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Emory-24
BC-36
Tufts-37
GWU- 59
Umiami-64
Tulane-69

You're trying to piss off Emorymom.

Succesfully? 😁

Doubt it, but Every Tufts parent think its a peer with Emory. They hate to be reminded Tufts is only T40.

Huh. My kid picked Tufts over Emory and UVA. You people have lost your minds. Only T40? Do you know many colleges there are in this country? And yet you draw these ridiculous distinctions based on how a corporation tells you these schools are ranked. These are all amazing schools. Just help your kids find one that your family can afford where they can thrive.

+1

So much insecurity in these threads. All fantastic schools.

+1 I told my kid at the beginning of the application process that there are unhappy, struggling people at every college and there are happy, successful people at every college. This isn’t a “cope” phrase- many of us on this forum attended top schools and I think all of us know from personal experience or our peers’ experiences that a degree from an elite college isn’t an automatic golden ticket to success and happiness. There’s a lot more to it. Some of the most fulfilled successful people I know attended lower ranked, lesser-known regional southern and midwestern colleges that are often ridiculed or ignored on this board.