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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. Ha Ha🤣

My kid was a top student, top grades, magnet rigor,  cracked SAT, very good EC, research work, tons of accolades etc.  Doing CS in flagship public university for free. Getting top internships and opportunities. Earning money and growing investment portfolio.

Not going to the top private school for full pay has saved us 400K which has enriched his inheritance significantly. At worst, he does not have to look after us for retirement.

Getting into a prestigious college is not the end game. [/quote]

This is the same route our DS took as well:

1560 SAT
4.0 Unweighted, 4.57 weighted
14 APs with all fives on the 8 tests taken so far
Merit Finalist 
Captain and MVP of his rowing team 
3 years juried music with awards 
Helped run the family business (with demonstrated financial impact!)

Applied to Yale (legacy), Princeton, Penn, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Cornell, Uchicago. Waitlisted at Northwestern and Cornell and rejected at the rest.

He is at our state flagship, which he was actually happy with from the beginning of the process, thankfully.

We invested the 300K we saved for college which will have a dramatic impact on his financial future. He is thrilled! And he joked about hoping it happened because he is pretty sure the social life is going to be so much better and is convinced he can get a great education pretty much anywhere. 
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What major? These results are surprising, unless STEM. 
Public or private HS?[/quote]
DP. I have a similar kid with similar results, for what it's worth. Not a STEM major.[/quote]

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