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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am interested to know how the bottom half does as well.[/quote]

I have two kids graduated from RMIB. While I'd hate to characterize as "bottom half" vs "top half", I can try to answer your question. Kids usually end of one of three groups - top tier schools (Ivy, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU...etc.) w/ full pay; UMD with significant merit scholarship; or UMD with smaller or no merit scholarship. The remaining students (i.e., the fourth group) end up all over the map for various reasons.  [/quote]

NP here, I really appreciate your trying to answer this difficult question.  I'm curious where you would put schools like UPenn, U Michigan, U Chicago and who goes to those schools -- to me, that is below the very top tier, and I am wondering if that is where the second tier goes, along with UMD on full scholarships, or if the third and fourth tier go there as well.  Wondering the same thing about those small liberal arts colleges like Williams.  [/quote]

The more you try to dissect the students into groups and colleges in tiers, the more problematic it gets (as you probably already know). Personally, I'd consider UPenn, UChicago, Williams, and Amherst) as "top tier" schools. Even the "below the VERY top tier" schools are very hard to get in (and harder to pay for). I've seen families with two incomes and 1 child or high income families (high power lawyers) or very low income families opt for this route. [b]Upper middle class or middle class families w/ multiple kids usually chase money - many at UMD and many at other lower tier schools b/c they won't get FA from the top tier schools.[/b] I am pretty sure I didn't answer your questions but whatever it's worth...[/quote]

Yes, and this *does* answer the question about RMIB students, including "bottom half" students.  The names of the schools they attend are to some degree meaningless, because a student with perfect scores and straight As may well attend UMD-CP because his parents cannot pay for Princeton.[/quote]

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