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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stumbled across this post just casually researching schools. I am a senior in high school. According to this website you are all "moms and dads". Let me just say that I would not like to meet the children most of you have raised. You are petty, arguing over silly things about these schools. The students who choose these schools are usually not looking past the 4 years they'll be there to when they're employed. That's not how the high school counselors encourage us to think. We're supposed to figure out what school will provide the best fit and the right opportunities for us. For the majority of students choosing a college is not about the school's reputation but a combination of where we can get in and what we want. The "best" Virginia schools, UVA and W&M, are incredibly difficult to get into. I go to a Fairfax County high school and have seen our school's statistics from my counselor. If you don't have over a 4.0 and are not a minority you have to have something very special to get in to those schools. Therefore many students simply cannot get in. Transferring is always an option but many, including myself, see it as inconvenient...a final choice if nothing else is available. Schools like CNU, VCU, GMU, UMW, and Longwood offer great opportunities to students who didn't take all AP classes and have potential. If you really want to go on to be successful you can go to a "higher quality" grad school afterwards. Admittedly, I have less respect for schools like Radford and WVU simply because I have less respect for the people I know seriously applying/attending those schools. Basically, I hope you're all much kinder to your children when they go through the college process than you are on this website. Every school provides opportunities to students that are willing to look for them and everyone has somewhere that is the right fit for them, even if it's not a top 50 nationally ranked school or whatever statistic you prefer to cite.

Just trying to pull all of you down to a student's perspective. [/quote

It’s a very good post. But I’m paying the bills.  So, you know, I get to have some say in the process.

(now many of those schools are just not worth going to, fit or no fit. )  [/quote]

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