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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boy this is a dumb thread even by DCUM standards.  Still, I'll add my two cents.

All of our kids are five years or more out of college.  When they were applying most were very good students and we were, to put it mildly, full pay.  Yet it never occurred either to them or to us to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a college education.  [b]Study after study has shown that the only group of students who does significantly better in life by attending an "elite" college over, say, a state school, are URMs from modest economic backgrounds.  F[/b]ast forward five or ten years post graduation, for the vast majority of DCUM posters you won't be able to tell which of your kid's friends went to State U a school like Middlebury.  It simply doesn't matter.  It won't even matter at cocktail parties -- instead of bragging about what school your kid got into, you'll be bragging about their job.

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You and your pesky facts. This is the internet, where people just say stuff. [/quote]

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