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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously people what exactly makes up a good school? To 90% of you it is the reputation- every one of the more notable schools has one. I cannot stand and cringe i hear a school being brought up to hear someone say "yep that's a great school" or "that's not a really good school".

To me ANY school that has a legit staff with professors with advanced teaching the courses and trying in earnest to shape young lives deserved to be respected bad treated as "a good school"

I feel at one point in the future, might not be in my lifetime, this notion of what is good and what is not will fall out of favor. There are loads of brilliant kids at mediocre schools. Some are lucky enough to go onto great graduate schools, some take advantage of job opportunities,etc...some are born luckier than others.

I for one, went to what is considered be a status school. I was lucky enough to be born into a very wealthy family and didn't have to work very hard, i knew no matter how I did I was covered. I am embarrassed to say it now but that is the truth. I look at my husband who came from nothing went to a mediocre state school but did brilliantly and was accepted for law school at a premiere institution (ivy league). He has come so far and we talk a lot about how people always turned their nose at his choice of undergrad but it really wasn't a choice. One of his best friends went to Deep Springs. Never heard of it? You might be surprised if you google it.

My own D is now looking at schools and has a very unique and decidedly progressive thinking approach to college. She is her fathers child, very very smart, most say she could go anywhere but we are allowing her to choose her school. Not on what is considered to be "good" or "the best" or prestige based and ironically one school she is considering is a school often referred to as a decent school (thought its top 50) but catering to a certain type of kid. Not saying which.....but we are letting this be HER decision. I know even if she were to attend a community college, she would do incredibly well and it just got me thinking about how hung up we are on saying what school is good, great, etc....and it is now a real pet peeve of mine to hear schools labeled this way (often inaccurately). There will get off my soapbox now![/quote]

I recognize your posts and you've talked about your "brilliant" (no other adjective suffices) husband and his "mediocre" state school literally dozens of times.  It's really almost as if you're trying to convince yourself that his lack of pedigree is acceptable.  Maybe this is a conversation you need to have with some of your own relatives, but do you really have to recycle it on DCUM every other week?[/quote]

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