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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not call it sour grapes but maybe more if a mis-match.  Many of these schools attract students that very academically oriented and really motivated to learn and enjoy learning.   It is not a "grind" for kids that like it.

An academically intense schools can be a good place for a super geek that has always felt out of place in high school.  They finally find a place to fit in and be surrounded by other that love school.[/quote]

Yes, but you don’t seem to understand that lots of very smart kids are well-rounded and don’t plan on becoming academics. For those students, a school full of grinding nerds is a turnoff. Of course, some of this can be addressed in the school selection process, but that process is not perfect. Where a kid attends depends on lots of factors, like admission, family financials, and PERCEIVED notions about a school. Also, a kid/family can be induced to attend a higher-ranked school simply because of its ranking, yet another school might have been a better fit. The point is, college matches are frequently imperfect, even when students and families are trying to get it right. [/quote]

If course I understand that.  But why are those kids a good fit for Swarthmore or hypms or wellesley or penn or some other academic pressure cooker where the kids are not that well rounded but are usually the opposite?[/quote]

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