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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, there must be something wrong with me.  When my dd talks about Ivies, I steer the conversation back to UVA and William & Mary.  You can get an excellent education any number of places, and this notion that it is Ivy or Bust is pure stupidity.

FWIW, both my DH and I are graduates of state schools.  Both of us went to Top 5 graduate schools (still not Ivies) and did better than most of the Ivy grads.  [b]The people at Ivy League schools are not smarter than everyone else[/b], nor are they automatically more successful.  
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Not everyone else, but a very large percentage of everyone else.  Face it; the kids who go to Ivy schools are by and large extremely smart and driven.  Will there be kids from other schools equally as smart and driven?  Sure, but not in the same proportions.  I went to a mediocre state school and easily 50% of the kids there were simply going through the motions.  The other half ranged from semi-serious to driven, but there were very few "Ivy" caliber kids.[/quote]

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