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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people on this forum really think their snowflakes can’t be intellectually stimulated at “non-selective” schools??

First of all - there will be plenty of smart kids basically anywhere and people can find their tribe.  Second of all - what about being able to function in the real world, in the workplace where people have all different strengths and skills.  Sometimes an average student can be brilliant socially or politically or just “get” geospatial thinking.  It would be a sad world if only good test takers prevailed across the board.

I hope my kid finds the school that meets their needs academically, socially and culturally and I don’t need artificial selectivity metrics to tell me what that is.[/quote]

Well stated!!

As long as you attend a school in the T200 or so, there will be plenty of "intellectual peers" for your kid.  Sure, it won't be 100% like a T25 school, but there will be plenty.

And yes, in the real world you will need to function with people who did not attend a T20 university, because that is most likely who 85%+ of the colleagues will be, including the management chain.  
Plenty of smart people attend their State University because it's affordable and they are smart to know you don't need to go into massive debt.

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Myself, my spouse and all of our siblings work as physicians, lawyers, professor, startup small engineering company, tech division at google and engineering consulting firm. A high percentage, over 50% of day to day colleagues went to T25 or better for at least one degree. There are very few people with degrees outside the T75 or so and those people could have gotten into more academic schools. There is no working with “the masses” or whatever. 
Sure we have to function with ancillary staff and nurse assistants with minimal education (GED for some) thats not hard we are all kind helpful people, but the meat of the work we all do is done with more or less mental peers that are very bright. College is a time to push yourself academically. For some that can only be achieved at top schools. For other bright kids they would be better off going somewhere they would be at the very top. [/quote]

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