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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like a great school that would be perfect for my son.   But if my son wants to return to the east coast after graduation, does the name/prestige carry this far back east?[/quote]

Your son's performance is what will carry back East and follow him to his interviews.  That's what you should be worrying about.  Not prestige.   Read: "Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be."  by Frank Bruni for some sane advice.  http://www.amazon.com/Where-You-Not-Who-Youll/dp/1455532703
Along with long with "Excellent Sheep..."  I think it ought to be required reading for parents.  What they say is obvious on the one hand, eye-opening on the other.

from Amazon: "Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

That belief is wrong. It's cruel. And in WHERE YOU GO IS NOT WHO YOU'LL BE, Frank Bruni explains why, giving students and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes.

Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has no monopoly on corner offices, governors' mansions, or the most prestigious academic and scientific grants. Through statistics, surveys, and the stories of hugely successful people who didn't attend the most exclusive schools, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges-large public universities, tiny hideaways in the hinterlands-serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What matters in the end are a student's efforts in and out of the classroom, not the gleam of his or her diploma."[/quote]

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