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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]

If academic peer group isn't important to your kid, that's fine. But why disparage those that value it? [/quote]

DP: I think the disparagement is aimed at those who believe all the smart kids only go to 10 colleges, and that if you don't go there you will have no worthy academic peers. If you value academic peers, you can go to any of about 200 schools and find plenty of them. Just look at where your own kid's brightest high school peers are -- my kids peers are all over the place from top 3 to 103, each for their own reasons. The friends at Harvard, Stanford, and Chicago are not heads and tails above the other kids, and the peers of the kids at schools in the 80s are no dummies. Don't buy the hype.[/quote]

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