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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also think this is regional. I spent most of my childhood in NY and going to a SUNY was not really the default -- people applied to all kinds of public and private schools and then went to the best one.

Then I moved to NC in high school, and my classmates overwhelming went to public schools (and this was a much wealthier district). The top 10 percent of us went to UNC-Chapel Hill. At the time it was like $4,000 a year or something, and a much better education than any other college except a top 10. My Dad wouldn't even consider paying for another school.

I think UVA is a similar thought process. It think it's because UVA and UNC are really good schools. [/quote]

I went to a public high school in a wealthy NYC suburb. I guess the students were more like the students at privates here where SLACs were popular. Many kids went to colleges in the northeast to places like Amherst, Swarthmore, Tufts, BC, Williams, etc in addition to Ivy plus Stanford and MIT. [b]Those smaller SLACs don’t seem as popular here, definitely not at our public high school.[/b][/quote]

They are, but since every single college and uni is now much more selective than during your generation, fewer people apply, and even fewer get in.
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