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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If your priority is to see your child experience the best of all worlds (elite education, strategic networking and preparing for graduate school and/or professional endeavors, career outcomes, and especially the overall social experience), the large public institutions like the Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Florida, Texas, UNC and Virginia are far ahead of the one- or two-dimensional environments that define all of the privates in the Top 25.[/b]

If you’re treating your child’s college experience as essentially a trade school where they are there exclusively to train for a specific career in finance or software development or civil engineering, sure, feel free to take the WSJ rankings seriously. But if you have any interest in college being the transformative experience for your child that it often is for those who get the most from it, flagship public over private all day, every day.[/quote]

This assertion is not in any way supported by facts.[/quote]

Look at any survey of college students for your facts.[/quote]

OK.  I looked at Niche surveys for academics and the top 25 privates do better than Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Florida, Texas, UNC, and Virginia.[/quote]

Social experience, quality of life, and research budget don’t mean much to you, apparently. Checks out. College is a pre-professional trade school for your kid(s), and I’m sure they are happy, well-adjusted souls.[/quote]

Huh? Dozens of kids from our high school go to T25 privates OR UCB/Mich types. They still hang out when they come home. The kids at privates whether it be WashU or Chicago or Ivies all have had fun and are social, as are the flagship kids. The more competitive schools at the very top have a bit more competitive spirit but the ones who picked these were the ones at the very top of the high school and that is a good environment for them--they thrive with it. All of these students mention they rarely go out more than 1-2 nights a week and they all spend a large part of the weekend studying. Most are premed/stem so maybe that is why, but they are not lacking socially. That is how they describe the culture at their varied schools. The ones at the private schools do not have the 500+ lecture hall stories because they do not have more than one or two classes above 200. [/quote]

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