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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a troll. I’m the parent of a HS sophomore who is killing themselves excelling in school and participating in extracurriculars to be competitive for T20.

At the same time, I see parents on here posting how their kid went to Cornell and ended up in the same place as someone who went to Pitt or another similarly ranked school.

At the same time, in my job I work alongside people who have gone to ivies and schools I’ve never heard of. I went to Michigan, btw.

My sister did her undergraduate at Oxford, stayed in the UK and is now partner at a well respected consulting firm alongside other partners that went to no name schools from India.

So seeing the stress my kid goes through, I am honestly asking what is the point of a Yale or Princeton if they take you to the same place that a school like Rutgers and Radford can take you?! [/quote]

The Indian school is no name to you or your sister, but I bet it is well regarded by people that know Indian colleges (which the Brits would know).

There are thousands of Indian colleges but only like 20 that are better than a correspondence school.[/quote]

This^. Every country has some great colleges. In Pakistan, students from whole country competes for our top colleges. If you get in, your peer quality is top notch and your college experience is significantly different than rest of the country and opens up opportunities not available to others.

Almost 75% of mine and DH's classmates are  thriving in US, EU, UK, AUS, NZ, CA, UAE, Saudi Arabia etc working alongside similarly fortunate colleagues from competitive colleges of their own countries.
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Who cares?[/quote]

Ones who were implying that somehow Indian grads aren't worthy of working at same level as Oxford grads, just because they don't know names of these colleges. PP's point is to emphasize the role peer quality plays in a college experience. [/quote]

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