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[quote=Anonymous]I've been baffled in the other direction -- why does WUSTL get discussed as a top school for high-achieving upper middle class kids?   I recognize that people choose colleges for a host of different reasons -- academics, sports, location, job prospects, prestige, networks -- but to me, regardless of category, there seems like there's always a more appealing alternative than WUSTL.  I'm not saying it's not a good college -- I just don't see it as likely to be many kids' first choice.  Taking Ivies and Ivy-equivalents off the table, I'd think that USC or NYU, Northwestern or a variety of different SLACs, Johns Hopkins, Ann Arbor or Madison would all be schools that are accessible to the kinds of kids WUSTL is trying to attract and all of them seem to me to have something more going for them than WUSTL.  What's WUSTL's comparative advantage?  (That's not a rhetorical question -- I'm perfectly willing to believe that the school has programs or virtues I'm unaware of.)[/quote]

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