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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand this is DMV area site but if anyone’s interested, here’s my perspective coming from a top Manhattan private…

For most families here, tuition cost is never the incentive behind choosing an overseas college. Families who seriously consider schools like St Andrew’s or McGill are often Ivies or bust type; and don’t want to tell their friends and especially work colleagues who just placed their DCs at Ivies+ WASP that their own kid is going to U of Colorado. So they send their kids to an international university and add the worldly/adventurous factor to the narrative. Often times these DCs of Ivies or bust parent are happy to go far away, so it’s a win win for everyone in a make lemonade out of lemons situation. [/quote]

My kids didn’t apply to any US schools. So I don’t think your “they are just rejects from good US universities” holds up. Can you not conceive of the fact that some kids genuinely prefer the university experience abroad?[/quote]

She isn’t addressing your kids’ situation.[/quote]

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