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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not new; it just feels new every year to the people going through it for the first time [cue the annual  "no, it's really different this time" posters].

Part of the reason is that the handful of people who choose a school believing it would change their child's college application outcomes look at the matriculations and only see the colleges on the list that they want to see, and knowing nothing about the students or why those chose the schools they chose or why they got into the schools they got into, naively assume this means their kid will get into the school of their choice.  Also, they probably don't appreciate how great the other schools on the list actually are and how much fit matters to individual kids. It is completely naive to assume all students choose a college based on where it lands on the USNWR list.  Once you dig in, if you are really doing your homework, that list goes out the window.

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Very True...Another part of it is the obsession this area has with private schools. It's not necessarily like this in other parts of the country. The lenses are severely cloudy here. There are great public schools around the country and the top magnets are amazing. That's the real competition not the handful of kids you know.[/quote]

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