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

[Anonymous]

Because it’s the best school for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Because we visited JMU and VT on the same trip. Though she'll likely get accepted at both, she loved the former and hated the latter.

[Anonymous]

He wanted to go to either Tennessee or u of s Carolina… I don’t know why.

[Anonymous]

For all the reasons a kid attends college! Why do you think???

[Anonymous]

Troll
Troll
Troll

or just an idiot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

this is baloney.

i graduated high school in 1982 and even then the average/below average kids were all going to college. i am not sure if i know a single kid from my class that **didn't** go to college.

Impossible! I think you’re misremembering. I graduated in 91 and would have said same thing but about 10 years ago I was cleaning my attic and found a HS newspaper saying where all the seniors went. Half went to cc and this is town that’s the equivalent of Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

There are over 7,000 colleges in the states. Next year nearly 4 million kids will graduate HS. Get some perspective.

I really love DC, but the cohort of idiots who are insecure nutjobs totally obsessed with private schools and college rankings really spoils things sometimes. I wish you guys would move away.

[Anonymous]

College enrollment is already declining. No one needs OP to get the ball rolling. Just pray there are still some nurses when you need them. Even if their degrees don’t come from T100s.

[Anonymous]

It was their chance at Div 1 sport (not recruited).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are any of you engaging in this nonsense post? Smdh.

Guess what you just did. Guess you went to a top infinity college?

I didn’t write anything about the actual post, so either you don’t understand the meaning of the phrase “engaging in this nonsense post,” or you are a troll. Either way, bug off.

PS: You guess wrong, Moron.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason?

Student WILL be. 2.6 GPA/1150 SAT

What happened?

You do know that you don't get a 90% plus kid without the vast majority of people scoring below the 90s?

It is not rocket science.

[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?

This! What the actual F?! Having spent almost my entire life in northern Virginia, I know tons and tons of people who currently attend or did attend JMU and every last one of them love/d it. It is ranked #148 per USNWR right now. And actually, I know several very successful people in their 40's/50's who attended JMU. OP, you live in some weird bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

this is baloney.

i graduated high school in 1982 and even then the average/below average kids were all going to college. i am not sure if i know a single kid from my class that **didn't** go to college.

You must come from a place of extreme privilege. I graduated in '89 and over half my hs class did not go on to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

this is baloney.

i graduated high school in 1982 and even then the average/below average kids were all going to college. i am not sure if i know a single kid from my class that **didn't** go to college.

Actually according to data I easily found using something called Google, the % of college bound hs graduates increased significantly from 1995-2000. Prior to that it was marginally increasing linearly. And 2010 was a huge jump.

So maybe you lived in a highly educated echo chamber.

+1 I graduate in 1988, and I knew several kids (most in my circle) who didn't go to college. Some went to trade school, but most did not go to a 4 yr directly.

[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?

This! What the actual F?! Having spent almost my entire life in northern Virginia, I know tons and tons of people who currently attend or did attend JMU and every last one of them love/d it. It is ranked #148 per USNWR right now. And actually, I know several very successful people in their 40's/50's who attended JMU. OP, you live in some weird bubble.

I don't know where you live or in what circles you run but in NOVA there is a stigma if you didn't go to a t75 or t50 five years ago ranked college.