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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, I guess it depends on how much you have had to put up with. Lots of parents have spent their kids elementary school years insisting that their snowflakes are such special outliners that they can't possibly be educated in the same classroom as the ordinary 115 IQ kids (in certain FCPS areas) It's annoying ... and then guess what? Turns out their special snowflakes go to large State U with the other kids anyway![/quote]

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I've seen this happen time after time with my kids' classmates.  [b]With the exception of a very few, they all wind up at the same state universities[/b], regardless of what path they took to get there (or how much money was spent along the way).[/quote]

Fallacy. There's a wide gap in talent at state schools. The top kids will be doctors and lawyers and execs... the bottom kids flunk out or major in a worthless social science. Everyone isn't on some equal playing field because they're at the same college.[/quote]

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The more you post, the more we laugh.  Keep it up![/quote]

I graduated from a school further down the scale in USNWR than HYP (although still Top 50) with a degree in a in a "worthless social science." Guess what?  I have a career I love that provides a six figure income.  And no, I am not an outlier. That being said, while the really top elites have been vacuuming up resources and growing their endowments we have been starving our great public institutions for years so that the role they play as a great equalizer in Amerian higher education is threatened.

See:  http://harpers.org/archive/2016/03/save-our-public-universities/[/quote]

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