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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I must be new here.

Why do so many of you care where our DC or other kids choose to go to college? I just don't understand all the arguments   Public vs Private, blah blah blah.  Top 10-50 colleges or bust?  (You are a fool for spending $50K a year on private school) when my kids public school was free (and our public kid was accepted to the same university as your private school kid}.

What exactly is the point of these posts?  Why does it matter?  I hope that we all make decisions that we believe are best for our kids.

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Passing time until our demise.[/quote]

Most accurate response. lol

Also in my case, I was clueless.  Things I did not know about when I started reading this board:

-1 That you don’t apply to all schools at the same time; had never heard of ED, ED2, EA, REA, rolling vs. RD.
-2 There is a strategy in using the above based on your kid’s list
-3 That my highly-motivated, high-stats kid has a nearly zero chance of getting into a top college
-4 What a “hook” is and realizing my kid doesn’t have one
[b]-5 That ECs can be as important as SAT and GPA
-6 The difference between merit and financial aid
-7 Net price calculators 
-8 Naviance/scattergrams[/b]
-9 That some top privates with stratospheric tuition could be more affordable for us than our in-state flagship (we are middle class, &lt;150k family)
-10 That Canadian and other colleges could be a better bet for high stats kids with less than extraordinary ECs
[b]-11 That our in-state flagship is a top school in the field kid wants to pursue and therefore not a safety for him even though it’s not in t40[/b]
[b]-12 That kid needs to take the most rigorous courses available to them that they can get As in (without, of course, affecting their mental health)[/b]

I could go on but think I have already sufficiently exposed my ignorance.

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I mean... these are common sense.  Your freaking KID should know this or skip college altogether. [/quote]

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