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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Yale so...[/quote] Yup, I went to T10 (non Ivy) and spouse went to a different T10 (Ivy), and we both went to a T15 for grad school (ranked T3 for our program). So nope, our kids didn't go to "better colleges than we did". One kid had no shot---they aimed at schools in the 80-100 range got into everything and did well (right fit for them). Other had a chance, but didn't get into our alma maters (despite ED to mine) or any T25, but is attending a T40 and extremely happy Fit matters more than "rank/pretige". And we are smart enough to realize that acceptance rates at T10 when we attended were 30-45%, so yeah it was easier and people only applied to 3-5 schools typically then (sure some did more, we were poor/LMC so we didn't do that). [/quote]
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