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[quote=Anonymous]First thing to keep in mind is that the SATs have been rescored (inflated). Your 1380 is more comparable to 1500 on today's scale. That's why the SAT scores look so impossibly high to those of us who took them 25 years ago.

The other thing to keep in mind is that your 6th grader will potentially benefit from a significant drop in college age matriculants that's due to begin pretty soon. In theory fewer kids chasing after the same number of spots.

But on the other side, like everything else about modern America, we are rapidly moving towards a two-tiered system so what the top 50% does is irrelevant to the bottom 50%.

Your kid will be all right if he/she has discipline and aptitude. I'm around the same age as you but in looking at people 10 years older than me, many who went to expensive Ivies and LACs are sending their equally bright kids to major flagships or other midlevel colleges with great merit aid, and those kids are turning out just as accomplished as their parents. I've been impressed by what they're doing, and if anything, less impressed by what I see coming out of elite colleges.... [/quote]

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