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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I totally get the question. I have two kids in college and three in high school.  Our high school senior was accepted to Princeton.  And she turned it down for University of Florida.  (Also, surprisingly competitive....I had no idea!)

Her reasons:
1.  She wanted to be closer to family (but not in the same town).
2.  She wants to go to medical school and UF has an outstanding accelerated medical school program.  You apply your sophomore year and basically start medical school during your junior year.
3.  She was offered a full scholarship.
4.  She loves the weather.
5.  She wanted a more "normal" (her words) college experience.

We never pushed her to go to Princeton.  We want her to go where she will be the happiest.  Some (most?) high school kids DO have the emotional maturity to make good decisions about their lives.  It's the parents, not the schools, that prevent emotional maturity by treating high schoolers like little children and refusing to treat their ADULT college kids as adults.  [/quote

Thank You. I assume that you are on the private school forum because it is relevant to you, so would you mind sharing which school your DC went to where the atmosphere obviously wasn't ," go Ivy or hang your head in shame" .[/quote]

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