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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Honestly though, if your goal is to get your kid into a top performing university, you'll probably have better luck if you come from Texas compared to Bethesda.[/quote]

I have lived in Texas and I don't know that that is true.  Largely because in Texas, all the emphasis for top students is placed on UT and Rice while both are great schools, there is a pond that is larger than Texas.  In general, on the East Coast, people are savvier with better college counselors (of course this can vary from district to district).

I would say that having lived in Texas, just like anywhere, if you shop around and pay a premium for a house in a good school district and/or private school, your kids can get a great education.  I am most familiar with the Austin area, so I can't speak for Dallas, but there are some very high performing schools in Austin.  There are also some horribly shitty ones, and overall I would say the standards are not as high as other parts of the country (although the best schools definitely go above and beyond where the state expects them to be).  But I would say in Austin at least, the best schools are (like anywhere else) test-in magnets, wealthy suburban areas, and wealthy areas within the city limits that are essentially suburban.  This seems to also be the case in the rest of the major cities (Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas).  I don't see how that is horribly different from the DC area, where in parts of Montgomery County that are affluent and Fairfax, which is affluent are extremely strong and other areas that are poorer are lacking.

The biggest thing I noticed is that there is generally less of an obsessive attitude about achievement, and more of an emphasis on doing well enough.  In certain regards, it may be healthier than all this hyperfocus on achievement from the womb, but I have also seen it give people Texas tunnel vision.[/quote]

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