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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2) more state schools that are not among the "public Ivies" -- I hate this term, but you know what I mean.  This may reflect high school culture more than anything else, including the students' strength as candidates for admission, the counseling program or even family finances (though this last factor might be the most signifcant of these).  My guess is that young women graduating from a small all-girls high school may be more eager to go to a big state school with a Greek scene, football games, etc., than are young men and women graduating from a slightly larger coed high school.        [/quote]

+1,000

As a single sex grad, this is why I hate these threads.

I got into as many top 20 schools as most of my classmates at the time, and was a National Merit Finalist.  Yet, because my family had scrimped and scraped to send me to school, I was at a 2nd tier no-name state university.  Make no mistake, I was embarrassed and ashamed as classmates wore their new college sweatshirts around campus and the matriculation list was posted.  I wanted to say "Wait, but I got in to X, Y and Z awesome schools!"  My private education set me up for great success at the state school and onwards into law school and my professional career, but at 18 it was hard to take.

I think there's nothing wrong with posting matriculation lists, but recognize that the quality of a school or its students should not be judged solely by the matriculation list.[/quote]

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