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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools got to expensive.

Kids that would have gone to Georgetown or Williams or an Ivy don’t want to spend $85-99k/year so more and more are going in-state instead.  Very few NoVA residents will qualify for financial aid anywhere since HHI are some of the highest in the nation and COL isn’t a factor in aid.

UVA is now #24 and WM provides the size and education of those $85k Slacs.

Got it?[/quote]

Agree with this.   I went to Cornell waaay back in the day and my parents were able to pay the tuition.  But it’s stupid-expensive now and I don’t even see it as an option for my kids.  I’m hoping they’ll get into one of the VA schools, but we’ll see how that plays out when the time comes.  [/quote]

Nowadays, only Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Yale are worth the ridiculous fees they charge. [/quote]

This. We told our DC it’s only Harvard, Yale, Stanford that we would be willing to go all in for. Otherwise, in state is it. [/quote]

Is Harvard & Yale worth the tuition for Computer Science over top state schools like Georgia Tech ?[/quote]

We have engineers in the family, and frankly, I would only pay for traditionally strong engineering schools (state or private).  Those schools without a robust history of CS and engineering do not have programs that are developed enough. Since you asked. [b] It shocks me that people choose engineering programs for the school name and not the program history, but I do think some parents are ignorant, in that regard.[/quote][/b]

Or perhaps they know that 80% of entering students change their major at least once.  Hence, it was smart for my DC to turn down Purdue and Ga Tech for aerospace engineering and went with UVA.  She switched majors to PPL (politics philosophy & law) at the end of her first year.  Turns out she and calc 3 didn't agree with one another.  She's now in a grad program at arguably the best university in the world and headed for law school.[/quote]

I[b] get it. Which school? [/quote][/b]

[b]The big O.[/b]  Now taking the LSAT and applying for law schools this fall. Her UVA education (similar majors) is far superior to my expensive SLAC one.  I've been very impressed.[/quote]

What school is that??[/quote]
She's being coy in that same obnoxious way that certain people like to say, "I went to school in Cambridge".[/quote]

PP here.  Can you tell me what school she is talking about? [/quote]

Oxford. No one in their right mind refers to it as the big “O”. Maybe she had her first one there. Lol [/quote]

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