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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, that's all made up.[/quote]

You don't have kids at top private. People are crazy. And obnoxious. I can totally believe a parent was made to feel embarrassed their DC was going to Indiana. Not that they should feel that way, or have any reason to feel that way, but that they did, and I appreciate the honesty. I recently had a parent at my DCs school tell me that another DC was going to INdiana, but they quickly followed up with "they're in Kelley," which is the Business School. Indiana is a great school in a great college town. [/quote]

PP just happened to know that all of her kid's classmates were unhappy at their schools. An entire year, save one kid at Indiana, from a private are simply miserable with their choices. [/quote]

PP did not say anyone was "miserable".  Just that her kid who went to IU was happier than any of his/her classmates.  I'm not sure if we are from the same school but at our "fancy" private school the graduating class is about 70 kids. After all those years together everyone knows everyone's business.  Even now I know how many kids from my DC's graduating class are seeking to transfer out, how many have entered rehab and how many are either very happy or not.  This is sometimes hard to believe from families at bigger public high schools.

The happiest kids I know of did end up at the big state schools.  Apart from Michigan, all other big state schools at my kid's private school are considered safeties.  Yes, even UVA.  As it turned out, the kids at Michigan and UVA are very happy.  But so are the kids at Wisconsin, UC Santa Barbara, UT Austin and yes, Indiana.  The kids at the Ivies are hating it.  It's hard to be a minnow in that bigger pond and it's tough grinding away to get the GPAs needed for med, law and business school surrounded by so many gifted and grinder students.  The kids at the SLACs apart from the athletes are also as a group not happy.  They found out by first semester what a ridiculously small pond they just floated into.  Most SLACs are smaller than most public high schools in this area.  Yeah, sure the "recruited" athletes in such sports as field hockey and lacrosse might see themselves as BWOC/BMOC, but no one else seems to care. The only spectators at their games seems to be parents and a handful of significant others.

My takeaway, it's easy to get caught up in the college brand name mania when you are in the middle of all of that madness.  But after a few years you figure out how misplaced your values were.

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