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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the obsession with Ivies that I've seen on this board (or Little Ivies for that matter).  It is great to have that as a goal but there are many great universities where students will also get a good education.[/quote]

I see what you're saying - some of the weakest students in my medical school were Ivy leaguers.  The real issue now is student loan debt.  Low-income and lower middle-class kids and their parents generally now come out of Ivies, Little Ivies, top technical schools and of course the military academies, without student loan debt, not true a generation ago.  With second and third tier private liberal arts colleges now running parents and students as much as the top tier, increasingly, parents are saying they won't pay for lesser schools.  And when kids shoulder enormous debt burdens to attend somewhat selective state schools when they could have come out of a highly selective privates without any debt, the obsession with Ivies and Little Ivies starts to make sense.  I think that honors programs at state schools are a terrific deal, as are some undergrad schools abroad (Canada, Scotland, Ireland).  That's where I hope my high-SES (but not super rich!) DC ends up.

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