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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It matters to me. I want my child to experience a bigger world than the one she’s grown up in, and I hope she doesn’t come back to the suburbs. I never wanted to end up there but I did. Almost all of the people I know who went to state schools came back home and live boring 2.5 kids soccer lives. Maybe they’re happy. I think some of them are. But I think a lot of them just never thought any bigger. She doesn’t have to go to an Ivy League school. She wouldn’t get in. But I want her to go somewhere where she’s exposed to a lot of different people and has options to experience things she wouldn’t otherwise. And you can tell me that’s not true and give me examples but I see it all around me. [/quote]

I'm dying. I live in DC in a very wealthy neighborhood--diplomats and world bank and us citizens--and everyone is living the 2.5 kid soccer life---event the Ivy grads and those that grew up abroad, etc. FWIW, a former President's kid used to play on my kid's sports' team.  Foreign news correspondents kids as well.

Your child might be exposed to all of that stuff anyways and decides she prefers the suburban life. It's seems to go in cycles.  I know so many suburban kids (self included) that never wanted to live in the suburbs raise their kids in the city or abroad, etc. and then their kid chooses the exact opposite life--they want acreage and quiet.

But, I will say I think your major is what matters.  For certain majors, you need to be at a top 20 school to get employment.  For engineering, etc., not so much.[/quote]

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