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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in the District Mon-Thurs and our main residence is in Metro Detroit. Daughter likes UMich but believes too many students from her h.s. matriculate so it ends up being h.s. 2.0. She plans to specifically target Brown and would attend UMich if rejected. But if she's accepted to both, is Brown worth the extra $120K? I'm on the fence.[/quote]

Are you completely crazy or unmentionably wealthy? If you have thousand dollar bills lining your litter box, then OK, spend the change on Brown. But if you are more or less middle class and would feel that $68K every year, send your kid to UMich, which is a great and huge school, BTW. Your child won't see her HS classmates there unless by some weird chance they are enrolled in the same sports and classes. Even then, her HS classmates will be diluted by all the new kids from all over the country.

I went to an Ivy and I would never send my children to one. I wouldn't even let my child apply to the one I attended. A friend who graduated from Harvard has been visiting schools with his daughter and says most of the "lesser" schools he's looking at have better teaching than he experienced at Harvard. My children are at schools that are sneered at by this board, but we're paying in-state tuition, and they are getting a fabulous education, equal to or better than the education I received at my Ivy. The difference is that the "lesser" schools are more like high school was for my kids: they were in the top tier at their high schools and they are in the top tier in their colleges. Were they at an Ivy, they'd be in that hyper-competitive atmosphere where everyone is clawing for the top. I loathed that competitive "win at any cost" mindless amosphere at my Ivy, but if your kid wants it, and you can afford it, go for Brown! I'd go to UMich, given what I know now. [/quote]

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