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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alumni networks for some of those schools are deep and the name recognition nationally is valuable.  If he is a good student and majors in something where he can get a job, he'll be in great shape when he graduates.

Also as PP said, some of those schools are excellent and attract great employers.  I went to one on that list and it was really a great combination I want my kids to have.

I would also not be excited about my kid going to Bama, but it sounds like yours has more power than most in the form of the trust. Do the best you can to guide but he has to own it.[/quote]

This is our sentiment exactly as parents of a DS that wants a big football school. The only top academic schools with big name football are ones he won’t get into - Michigan and Notre Dame. Stanford, Northwestern, Duke are great sports schools but are not what most of these kids are looking at for big football - not SEC level of game day. He could get into smaller more prestigious liberal arts colleges but wants no part of that. So he will likely go to a lesser academic school. We believe the alumni networks at some of his choices will be very helpful and somewhat offset the lack of prestige and recruiting that comes with top academic schools. DS also makes case that he will do well and focus on top academic school for graduate degree. [/quote]

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