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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a prep school and everyone was expected to go to a really good college. A number of my friends ended up in the Ivy League and ALL of them said that the hardest part was getting into the school. None of them worked as hard in college as they did in high school, so you may want to tell him that it's a false choice. I went to a good, but not Ivy-level school and my friends confirmed that I worked harder in college than they did. They got time to pursue life and extracurriculars and got the Ivy diploma.

I am by no means arguing that he should go to a "top" school if he doesn't want to. I'm just saying that the work load if he gets in may surprise him.[/quote]

This. I think his logic is flawed. A lot of the best schools have a lot of grade inflation. Plus, if you want to apply to grad school, going to the best school you can get into helps with that. If you go to a lower ranked school, you actually have to worry more about grades if you want to go to grad school. You have to get a higher GPA at a lower ranked school in order to make up for the fact that you were at a lower ranked school.

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