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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sucks except if you win. Then it’s great. There is nothing globally that is like the education, connections and level of services of all kinds available at the tippy-top of American higher education.[/quote]

No, it sucks period. The reason that it sucks is the supply/demand imbalance and the simple fact that there are some whom believe that there are only a small number of schools which "matter" and everything else is a failure. That entire mental model is ridiculous with anything deeper than a surface evaluation because you will quickly realize that this is a demand/ego driven belief rather than any actual difference in quality.

My kids won big, it was great for us. We won because of athletics and I am perfectly fine with that advantage as the pool of 1% academics combined with D1 caliber athletics is measured in the hundreds each year at most. It's a very select group spread across many sports and they are part of it. But, if it wasn't for athletics we too would have been in the lottery mix like so many very deserving kids and I'm sure that it would have been miserable.

The best things that we can do for our kids is to remind them that they will get a similar student body at 60 schools, not 10 if they are among the brightest cohort you can add another 80 schools to that group for kids who are very bright but maybe not at the very top. For typical college bound kids there are literally hundreds of schools which will provide a quality education and great job prospects for motivated kids.[/quote]

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