Prestige colleges

[Anonymous]

If your kid can’t get into one, are you embarrassed?

[Anonymous]

Troll fail

[Anonymous]

Please provide a list of what qualifies as a “prestige college”.

[Anonymous]

Yes. My selfworth is wrapped up in DC’s success but therapy has helped us get through this trying time. Thoughts and prayers would be very much appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Troll fail

It’s a serious question. This is an anonymous forum. So people can be honest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please provide a list of what qualifies as a “prestige college”.

UVA and up.

[Anonymous]

My kid didn’t aim for prestige because we don’t brag and don’t care much what others think about how we live our lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please provide a list of what qualifies as a “prestige college”.

UVA and up.

William and Mary. What about SLACs?

[Anonymous]

Personally, yes, because we emphasize academics, believe the education, classmates, and overall experience is superior at an excellent school, and have kids with the expected stats. That said, a parent can’t expect the unreasonable. If your kid isn’t taking a rigorous curriculum, getting excellent grades, scoring a 34/1500 on the ACT/SAT, then it’s not realistic to expect admission to prestigious college. In that case, one can’t be embarrassed about something that was never obtainable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid didn’t aim for prestige because we don’t brag and don’t care much what others think about how we live our lives.

Yet here you are, drawn immediately to a thread called “prestige colleges.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please provide a list of what qualifies as a “prestige college”.

UVA and up.

William and Mary. What about SLACs?

Yea William and Mary works. It’s UVA level. For LACs, nothing below US News top 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My selfworth is wrapped up in DC’s success but therapy has helped us get through this trying time. Thoughts and prayers would be very much appreciated.

Can you recommend your therapist? Some mornings I wake up and feel great for about 30 seconds, until despair takes over as I ponder a future where my child could be exiled to a lesser Ivy or even (lowers voice) a CTCL school. I mean, what would people I know superficially at best say behind my back? Some days it’s just all too much. As I curled up in bed sobbing this morning, my kid told me to Get A Life.

Maybe a DCUM CTCL parent support group?

[Anonymous]

Not as embarrassed as I would be if I didn’t know enough to say “prestigious colleges” vs “prestige colleges.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Personally, yes, because we emphasize academics, believe the education, classmates, and overall experience is superior at an excellent school, and have kids with the expected stats. That said, a parent can’t expect the unreasonable. If your kid isn’t taking a rigorous curriculum, getting excellent grades, scoring a 34/1500 on the ACT/SAT, then it’s not realistic to expect admission to prestigious college. In that case, one can’t be embarrassed about something that was never obtainable.

But excellence and prestige are not necessarily the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally, yes, because we emphasize academics, believe the education, classmates, and overall experience is superior at an excellent school, and have kids with the expected stats. That said, a parent can’t expect the unreasonable. If your kid isn’t taking a rigorous curriculum, getting excellent grades, scoring a 34/1500 on the ACT/SAT, then it’s not realistic to expect admission to prestigious college. In that case, one can’t be embarrassed about something that was never obtainable.

But excellence and prestige are not necessarily the same thing.

True dat. My DC wants to ED Carleton. One of her friends Moms (who doesn’t have the best social skills) asked why she’d apply to a school no one had ever heard of. Excellent SLAC. Not necessarily prestigious in the DMV.