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OP, I can’t decide if you’re plumb ignorant, or just a sucky person like a pp said.

[quote=Anonymous]-- "It's not a bad idea to do the first two years at a community college on the cheap, then transfer to a more prestigious university." (Have fun with that!)  -[b]Yes, that can work very well.  The degree is the degree.[/b] [[i]b]Agree, especially for kids who don’t have the grades to get into a flagship state university straight out of high school and would otherwise be paying $$$ for a fourth-tier no-name. [/b][/i]

-- Some variation of "undergrad rank/prestige doesn't matter, only grad school matters." ( )  [b]There is a lot of truth to that.  And actually, I agree that prestige is the least of the many considerations that go into choosing the right college.[/b] [b][i]ITA that grad school matters more in my field, and college is a different set of choices. [/i]
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-- Boasting about all the APs their child is in, never mentions the AP exam scores. ( )  -[b]Don't know anyone who "boasts" about the number of AP exams, and no one I know reports their kid's scores.[/b] [i][b]If their kid is taking APs this year, they won’t know the scores until next June, so yeah, they’re not in a position  to talk to you about AP scores.[/i][/b]

-- "Emma is doing research this summer with a university biochemistry department." (Emma is currently taking AP chemistry.) -[b]Good for Emma![/b] [b][i]How often does a parent actually elide an AP class with doing summer research at a university? Maybe 0.0001 of parents, I’m guessing.[/b][/i]

-- The passive aggressive "oh, I've heard that's a good school."  [b]Not sure what is passive aggressive about that, but I don't care what anyone thinks about my kid's school.[/b][/quote] [b][i]My kid went to Columbia, I get that sometimes, and it never occurred to me it’s passive aggressive, just a parent saying something nice.[/b][/i][/quote]

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