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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don’t leave pre-kids, wait until your kids are in one of the 2000 student cut-throat schools*50 of them in the dmv. 
Stressful and total crapshoot applying to colleges around here.

But have fun with all the sports and arts cuts. Only <10% will make the cut! What a place to live.[/quote]

Well, if you make the <10% in podunk high school, flyover country, it still may not cut it either for an elite college.[/quote]
This isn’t 100% accurate. Elite schools also care about geographic diversity so it can actually be easier to get in from a state where there are less applicants. [/quote]

I was the shining star of a podunk high school, and got into elite Ivy. And barely survived freshman year bc I was in way over my head. I would rather my kids go to excellent high school, be middle of the pack, and then do stellar at VT or JMU. [/quote]

+10000000[/quote]

So you'd rather your kids have VT/JMU degrees over an Ivy degree?

Mildly curious. [/quote]

I grew up here. I went to Brown. My DH went to UVA. He has done much better that me. He has a huge alumni network and that has benefited him very well. I would 100% rather my kids go to UVA or VT than an Ivy. I see no ROI there, other than the fact that you can impress douchebags at cocktail parties. [/quote]
Well first of all UVA is much better than VT/JMU. I went to an ivy and would be ecstatic if my DC went to an ivy or UVA. That said there are entire industries that you basically have no shot of entering if you don’t go to an ivy or a handful of other schools. You aren’t going to be doing management consulting or investment banking straight out of undergrad at VT or JMU. [/quote]

No but you can make good money with a computer science and engineering degree out of VT. [/quote]

It's an okay engineering school and mediocre for CS. The cap on these professions is also low over the long haul.[/quote]

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