Advice for help advising driven teen and “elite” college admission

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I have Ivy professors in my family. They tell me they don’t want their kids going to an Ivy for undergrad and are pushing the SLACs. They also told me that for graduate admissions, they really like kids from SLACs because they know they were well-educated. Just a data point but I think it is interesting.

I can totally see this. I'm an Ivy grad and I'm encouraging my DC to look at SLACs. She has found several SLACs that she loves and I'm so impressed with what I see. I think she'll get a better education at a SLAC than an Ivy.

I agree, but I still think that an Ivy is better for most students than a SLACs (save for maybe Williams, Amherst, and Wellesley). College is not so much for the education that you get as much as it is for the connections you make and the internships/job opportunities you get after -- and that's much better at, say, Princeton than at Grinnell or Vassar.

Sure, you think that. But a lot of people who know the Ivies better than you — Ivy professors — disagree with you. You’ve bought the marketing entirely but don’t understand the reality.

No, I understand the reality fairly well. A Princeton degree will open up doors in corporate America that a Grinnell degree will not. Full stop.

Sure, you could make a strong case for a student attending Williams or Amherst over pretty much any school in the country. I'd probably go to Williams over everything but HYP and maybe Dartmouth.

From your posts, I doubt you could get into any of the schools you mentioned.
Maybe if you got lucky, you might have a shot at Delaware state or University of Texas at Arlington

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I have Ivy professors in my family. They tell me they don’t want their kids going to an Ivy for undergrad and are pushing the SLACs. They also told me that for graduate admissions, they really like kids from SLACs because they know they were well-educated. Just a data point but I think it is interesting.

I can totally see this. I'm an Ivy grad and I'm encouraging my DC to look at SLACs. She has found several SLACs that she loves and I'm so impressed with what I see. I think she'll get a better education at a SLAC than an Ivy.

I agree, but I still think that an Ivy is better for most students than a SLACs (save for maybe Williams, Amherst, and Wellesley). College is not so much for the education that you get as much as it is for the connections you make and the internships/job opportunities you get after -- and that's much better at, say, Princeton than at Grinnell or Vassar.

Sure, you think that. But a lot of people who know the Ivies better than you — Ivy professors — disagree with you. You’ve bought the marketing entirely but don’t understand the reality.

No, I understand the reality fairly well. A Princeton degree will open up doors in corporate America that a Grinnell degree will not. Full stop.

Sure, you could make a strong case for a student attending Williams or Amherst over pretty much any school in the country. I'd probably go to Williams over everything but HYP and maybe Dartmouth.

From your posts, I doubt you could get into any of the schools you mentioned.
Maybe if you got lucky, you might have a shot at Delaware state or University of Texas at Arlington

Bad news for you, I went to HUG.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I have Ivy professors in my family. They tell me they don’t want their kids going to an Ivy for undergrad and are pushing the SLACs. They also told me that for graduate admissions, they really like kids from SLACs because they know they were well-educated. Just a data point but I think it is interesting.

I can totally see this. I'm an Ivy grad and I'm encouraging my DC to look at SLACs. She has found several SLACs that she loves and I'm so impressed with what I see. I think she'll get a better education at a SLAC than an Ivy.

I agree, but I still think that an Ivy is better for most students than a SLACs (save for maybe Williams, Amherst, and Wellesley). College is not so much for the education that you get as much as it is for the connections you make and the internships/job opportunities you get after -- and that's much better at, say, Princeton than at Grinnell or Vassar.

Sure, you think that. But a lot of people who know the Ivies better than you — Ivy professors — disagree with you. You’ve bought the marketing entirely but don’t understand the reality.

No, I understand the reality fairly well. A Princeton degree will open up doors in corporate America that a Grinnell degree will not. Full stop.

Sure, you could make a strong case for a student attending Williams or Amherst over pretty much any school in the country. I'd probably go to Williams over everything but HYP and maybe Dartmouth.

From your posts, I doubt you could get into any of the schools you mentioned.
Maybe if you got lucky, you might have a shot at Delaware state or University of Texas at Arlington

Bad news for you, I went to HUG.

But they didn't teach you not to respond to trolls?

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I have Ivy professors in my family. They tell me they don’t want their kids going to an Ivy for undergrad and are pushing the SLACs. They also told me that for graduate admissions, they really like kids from SLACs because they know they were well-educated. Just a data point but I think it is interesting.

I can totally see this. I'm an Ivy grad and I'm encouraging my DC to look at SLACs. She has found several SLACs that she loves and I'm so impressed with what I see. I think she'll get a better education at a SLAC than an Ivy.

I agree, but I still think that an Ivy is better for most students than a SLACs (save for maybe Williams, Amherst, and Wellesley). College is not so much for the education that you get as much as it is for the connections you make and the internships/job opportunities you get after -- and that's much better at, say, Princeton than at Grinnell or Vassar.

Sure, you think that. But a lot of people who know the Ivies better than you — Ivy professors — disagree with you. You’ve bought the marketing entirely but don’t understand the reality.

No, I understand the reality fairly well. A Princeton degree will open up doors in corporate America that a Grinnell degree will not. Full stop.

Sure, you could make a strong case for a student attending Williams or Amherst over pretty much any school in the country. I'd probably go to Williams over everything but HYP and maybe Dartmouth.

From your posts, I doubt you could get into any of the schools you mentioned.
Maybe if you got lucky, you might have a shot at Delaware state or University of Texas at Arlington

Bad news for you, I went to HUG.

But they didn't teach you not to respond to trolls?

It's an anonymous message board and I'm bored.