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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Safety: UMd

No interest in paying big $$ for a school that is not notably better than UMd (will be a Stem major). Therefore he took a swing at a few heavyweights and if it doesn't work out, UMd it is. 1530/4.3w, private.

I can't even imagine paying somewhere like BU (or many others) a truckload of money for an education that is not *notably and substantially* better or more prestigious than UMd and *is* notably less prestigious than HYP/Rice/Penn.  And this is no knock on BU, its a very fine school probably better in some fields then UMd but is it 150-200K+ better?[/quote]

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We feel the same way.  Know someone who is paying a boatload of money to attend Northeastern (??) when they could have gone to their very good state school instead and gotten an excellent education for far less money.[/quote]

I don't know why this is so hard to understand.  Some kids really want to go to get out of the DMV to go to school.  Mine included.  If you have the ability to pay and your kid wants to go to school in Boston and Northeastern is the right fit and their top choice, then you send them to Northeastern. Or BU.  Or wherever it is that they really want to be.  Jeez.[/quote]

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My kid had the stats for UVA but didn’t have the class rank.  Why would they want to go to JMU if we can afford to send them to an out of state school that has a more similar academic reputation as UVA? [/quote]

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