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Huh? You consider schools like Emory to be third tier? You're playing the Ivy vs. everywhere else game, which is silly (the other side of the coin is that kids who can pay full price can have an advantage at schools that would otherwise be reaches -- I'm sure this wasn't the case for your snowflake, but it certainly was for mine!). I think OP raises an interesting question. In the long run, high school can be a much more formative experience than college -- which people often discover after the fact, rather the front-end obsessing over where to go to college (and which for many people matters less in the long run). Anyway, maybe OP's income is such that his/her child would qualify for decent need-based aid. So you're right, there's no one-size-fits-all answer.[/quote]

I'm not playing the Ivy vs. everywhere else game, and I never mentioned Emory or any other school or suggested Emory was 3rd tier or in-between. I don't know if you're the same person who twisted my words the first time, but I'm getting tired of it. Please stop twisting my words into "go to a mediocre public and hope colleges don't figure it out" and "Emory is a 3rd tier school."

I do, however, think it would be unfair to OP to let PP's statement stand. That was the post that said, "if OP's kids go to a challenging high school, they are shoe-ins for tons of merit aid at the colleges of their choice." This needs to be set straight, because who knows what college OP's kids will want to attend, and there's a reasonable chance it will be a poorly-endowed SLAC that won't give them lots of merit aid. The second false assumption that I want to correct is that a "challenging high school" means a private high school, because some of you seem to believe that publics aren't ever challenging and privates are always challenging, which is wrong at least from my family's personal experience in both private and public.

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