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[quote=Anonymous]NP (and I'm not going back to read the whole thread because it seems to have gone off topic).  Personally, I don't see a problem with a kid who has visited a bunch of schools and decided she is more of an Amherst or UChicago student than a Harvard/Princeton/Yale student.  All of those schools are excellent, and the advantages conferred by going Ivy, vs. going to one of the other excellent school you mentioned, aren't significant enough to push a kid to go to a school where she isn't into the school culture.  If she was a very strong student who wanted to go to a non-selective school because, say, her boyfriend was going to that school and she didn't want to be separated from him-I would say push her hard to apply to selective schools.  But in this case, I think it should be her choice to apply to the excellent schools she likes best.

(My partner when to Princeton, and, although it is an excellent school academically, I would hate to see my own kid go there because I think the social environment is horrible.) [/quote]

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