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[quote=Anonymous]I'll take this from another angle.

There are no top colleges that my DCs will be turning down UVA or W&M for, because virtually all of those colleges are out of reach for us financially. Our Expected Family Contribution is much higher than we feel we can afford and all of the Ivies and most of the other top schools mentioned in this thread give only financial aid, based on the EFC, not merit aid. The cost of attendance for my kid at any of these schools will simply be too high. So if my child's goal is to go to the highest rated school possible, then he will go to UVA or W&M (assuming he gets in). And I suspect that one of my DCs will do exactly this.

My other DC is not at all interested in school rankings, and there are certain other attributes he is looking for in a college that make UVA and W&M less than ideal candidates in his mind. If fact, he is not interested in applying to UVA. Assuming he is admitted to these schools, I think he would turn down W&M to attend a certain smaller, much lower ranked school if it offered significant merit aid to bring the cost close to that of W&M. That school would be a great fit for him, and I think he would thrive there.[/quote]

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