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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the first point, but none of the rest, with the possible partial exception of the point about womens' college (women did have access to co-education at public universities and at some privates -- but Seven Sisters were considered Ivy equivalents at the time and just aren't now.  OTOH, Ivies were something different then too.)

You'll pay $60K+ a year to send your kid to most well-regarded universities (unless you live in a handful of states whose flagships are exceptional and your kid gets into the flagship), so cost isn't necessarily a voting issue.

Re recruiting, depends on the field.  If your DC is law or med school-bound or headed to grad school, it's kind of irrelevant. If your kid wants to be an engineer, choose a school based on the engineering program, not whether it's a LAC vs. a well-regarded university.  Harvey Mudd's probably a better choice than Harvard.

P[b]aragraphs 2&3 make OP's friend sound like a conservative white guy who longs for the good old days when attending whatever LAC he attended meant being surrounded by guys just like him.  He mistook systematic exclusions back in the day for meritocracy.  Bottom line: if he can't have a privileged enclave, he's not shelling out the big bucks for his kids' education.  Who cares?  Not a guy whose advice I'd follow[/b].[/quote]

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