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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges are a bit more expensive now, you know. Ivy League schools were already highly expensive and are even more so now.

I agree with the sentiments of other comments that it's different today. With so many "valedictorians" and 5.0 students, it is more difficult to stand out among a larger pool of applicants. More students look the same on paper. More students are applying to colleges. Fewer are getting in with better stats than their parents had decades ago.

Arlington is also a small County. Many attend private high schools. Colleges aren't looking to get all their students from the same schools or same geographical area. APS doesn't stand as far above the rest as it once did; but I don't know how its application and acceptance rates to the Ivies has been over the decades.

And here in Arlington, [b]there are a lot of UVA-ers and VA-techers who revere those schools more than they do Harvard and Yale[/b].[/quote]

Every single UVA or Va Tech grad in Arlington wants their kid to be the one child in Arlington who gets into Harvard or Yale, regardless of how much they love their alma mater or think UVA/Va Tech provide an excellent education. Come on.  [/quote]

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