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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other adjustment needed is the idea that there is something special or essential about the rankings in USNWR.

Until people accept that [b]hundreds of colleges have stellar students getting a stellar eduction from stellar professors and going on to have stellar careers,[/b] this anxiety producing nonsense about only 10-20 colleges being acceptable for strong students will not end.

If your top student is attending a school ranked 60, that school has a fantastic student who will go on to do great things -- likely better things than a hundred kids from Harvard. The workforce makes this obvious; look around you. On top of that, that top-ranked kid from your school might not even be the top student at that 60th ranked college. Yours isn't the only super bright kid attending those schools ranked in the 40-120 range. Do you really think there aren't any geniuses at 117-ranked RIT? There are. [/quote]

T20 is probably a target that should go away, but there are not hundreds of stellar colleges. To take your "hundreds" literally, Ball State is 202 and Bellarmin University is 203 according to US news (there is a multiway tie for 196). Do you think any NCS student or parent sending their kid to NCS would think those are stellar schools? [/quote]

You are forgetting the excellent options at small liberal arts and regional colleges, plus colleges abroad. I stand by hundreds of options. [/quote]

It's not hundreds. It's actually about a hundred and that's being generious. Top 50 Universities, top 50 LACs. That's about it. I crack up when come on here talking about the thousands of colleges. If you come from a private in the DC area, that's just not true. It's hundreds of students competing for a small handful of the same schools. I will be disappointed if my kid winds up at College of Charleston or Elon, which unfortunately is what her counselor is going to recommend as matches (safe matches, but not even safeties). After attending a competitive school with bright, hardworking girls, can you imagine surrounding yourself with those who attend College of Charleston or Elon? It's a whole different world and would be a disappointment. There's no way that many of those girls are extremely disappointed. [/quote]

You are taking the rankings waaaaay too seriously and literally. Kids will choose a school ranked [b]60 over a school ranked 38 if they like the other one better and especially if it is better in their field.[/b] Every day of the week. There is no real difference between these schools. You have no idea how ridiculous you are being.[/quote]

OK, PP said hundreds. Can you say the same thing about choosing a school ranked 337 over a school ranked 38 or 60?[/quote]

A SLAC ranked 54, a National ranked 117, a regional ranked 10, a different region ranked 5, and one of hundreds of international schools not really ranked here. If you have started this process in earnest, you would know that there isn't "one list" and each list contains many, many schools that are, and many that are not, a good fit for a given kid. The lists have gone crazy: there are lists for size, for region, for major, for cost, for specialty services, for undergrad teaching quality, for value, for religions, for best fraternity scene, etc. etc. etc. There are thousands of colleges, and yes hundreds of them are worthy of your precious child's genius.

No kid can apply to every school. It's not as if a student who chooses to go to a SLAC ranked 42 applied to and was not admitted to the other 41 plus all of the National schools. They saw a school they liked, applied, got in, likely with merit, and picked it. Maybe they applied to a reach or two and didn't get in - 93% of people don't get in to the reaches the are qualified to attend. It is not a tragedy. But with threads like this, where people are so myopic and critical, it is no wonder these kids are so stressed out that they are forbidden to even talk to each other about applying to college, which should be a fun and exciting period of time for them. Instead they are labeled with a number according to some ridiculous magazine and treated as if this is a line up and testament to their personal worth and intelligence and standing in the community. And then a bunch of anonymous people get on a message board and pick them apart as if their choice of school is so unworthy that some of you suggested you should transfer your younger kids to a different high school least this horror befall you! Disgusting. Is it any wonder so many kids struggle with mental health once they get to college?

There are indeed hundreds of great colleges where your children will thrive. Hundreds.[/quote]

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