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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just career. Some people meet their spouses in college. College provides a great filter.[/quote]

There are still plenty of excellent "spouse material" candidates if your Ivy/T25 qualified attends their state school (honors program) or a school ranked in the T150. Plenty of like minded people.  Sure it might be harder if they to to a school ranked 300, but in the T150-200, there are plenty of driven, hard working, smart people.

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But it doesn’t have to be in the honors programs, which are often just “name only” programs with no real substance.  Good schools attract smart people, period.[/quote]

One kid attended a 80-100 ranked school.  Yes there are kids there who had a 3.3UW in HS and only a 1150.  But there are also plenty of kids who had a 1400+/3.9UW/10AP+ and are majoring in engineering/biomedical sciences/etc.  Plenty of smart driven kids. As well as plenty of kids like my kid, with a 1250/3.5UW.  All of my kid's friends graduated in 4 years, have jobs or are attending graduate school.  3 years out of undergrad and they are all "successful". 
And yes, the kids find their crowd and most of the "really smart" find a crowd that includes many really smart kids as well.  Not hard to find your group
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“Plenty with 1400+” and an average around between 1150-1250 is an entirely different vibe and rigor than 75% of kids 1500+, come on its not even close to the same atmosphere nor the same level of intelligence and courses. 1400+ is NOT the same as 1500+ especially when the 1400+ are themselves not common at the school. 
Peer fit matters for the best education. Grad and professional schools know it. Those that have been at both will tell you : typical state flagships in the t75-100 range run courses much slower and more superficial than T20/ish. Of course T10 v T20 or T30 v T50 is only mildly different,on average, when discussing student talent, but T10 v T100 is an extremely wide margin. Not many average students would be happy at the latter, and they would risk not reaching their potential [/quote]

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