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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, my kid is transferring out of a T20 for a school about 20 schools lower in the ranking pool because they want a better quality of life. [/quote] OP here. Better in what way? Can you elaborate on what their experience has been and what they hope for in their new school? Thank you![/quote] DC ultimately felt like the culture at the school was more individualistic and scrappy. Lots of students and seemingly never enough resources. They also had a significant illness during the year which made things doubly hard, and maybe it was the luck of the draw, but they found their professors unresponsive and the TAs weren’t much better. And despite what some posters said, they didn’t get a grade below an A- so they were hacking it fine, just decided they no longer wanted to hack it in that environment and we see our kid as a whole person, not just an academic performance machine. They’re transferring to a smaller private. [/quote]
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