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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are correct. I think some of this, especially in the DC area, is that a lot of these parents went to these highly ranked schools back when it was a lot easier to get into them (not as many kids going to college, fewer looking at schools outside their region). And they think any success they have in life is a result of going to a particular college and/or are unaware at how much less selective their own school used to be. While also being completely unaware of the opportunities available at not-so-selective schools and somehow not noticing that lots of their peers likely went up a wide range of schools.

NYU, for example, currently #30 has a 9% acceptance rate. In the 90s it had a 65% acceptance rate. USC is 10% and was 70% in the 90s.

The T30 or bust families would faint at the idea of their kid don't to a 65%+ acceptance rate college with at the same time being proud of their own degrees and happy with their experience at schools that were that high when they went.

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This is a good take. I would especially echo the “I’m successful and went to X, therefore X caused my success” point. This is a logical fallacy but you see it here all the time.[/quote]

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