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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Good" schools are a status symbol among the kids.  Some can't wait to add Yale or Stanford to their FB profile.  I guess Harvard, too.  [/quote]

Haha. Harvard not so much, according to my senior at a top area program who just got accepted at a different Ivy. My kid says that if you tell others you are applying to Harvard, they roll their eyes at you and think you're a status seeker, or that you have some hook you're exploiting because regular kids don't get into Harvard on pure merit (or so the perception goes). DC refused to apply there but got into an Ivy that accepts only about 1 percent more applicants. Now you're absolutely correct about the status value of Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and Brown, at least at DC's school.[/quote]

Nice of you to prey on OP's concerns by bragging.  Very helpful.[/quote]

OK, why don't you explain what you think would be helpful to OP. After all, competition is a part and parcel of the whole Big 3 package, and it's hard to imagine OP didn't see this moment coming.

Private schools typically have about 100 kids in the graduating class, some more, some less, so it's a lot easier to keep track of who is going where. In public schools everyone knows who got into the big name universities, but for lots of kids there's a pretty safe cloak of anonymity and only your circle of friends will be aware of your triumphs and disappointments. [/quote]

Therapy. 
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