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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's "not so culturally different" from DC, her kid will be competing with a lot of other aggressively-parented kids with high expectations and a laundry list of accomplishments.  There is a slight chance that the kid could get a "geographic diversity" bump, but it'd be more likely if she moved to Idaho or something.  But if it helped her save money to send the kid to college, then good for them.[/quote]

Exactly.

If people want to move for a better quality of life, more power to them. But I like living in the DC area (incidentally, where my husband's job is), and I'm certainly not going to sacrifice that *just* for a possible bump in college admissions. My kids are, and will do fine. My college freshman is happy where he landed, and his younger siblings will be too.

We're nerds and like academia. But we don't actually care that much about placing our kids in "elite" universities, because we do not believe their entire life trajectory depends on the name of the institution on the diploma.

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