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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spouse and I are both Ivy grads.  We both wanted SLACs for our kids.  Ivy students are smart but the Ivy experience is usually overrated.

Walking around Yale and Harvard a few times over the past few years, I've been amazed at how tense many (most) of the students seem. Campuses of SLACs and even campuses of state universities often give off a happier vibe.

Also, "Ivy" is just 8 colleges that happen to be in the same athletic conference.  People who apply to all 8 seen pretty clueless to me.  If you really like Dartmouth and Cornell, there are plenty of excellent non-Ivy colleges you'd probably prefer to Columbia, Penn, Harvard and Yale.  If you really like the more urban Ivy options, why would your top choices include Princeton, Darmouth or Cornell?  For some applicants, there may be particular academic programs or athletic or extracurricular activities that explain why someone would like both Columbia and Dartmouth, but usually there won't be a very good reason.

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Yeah I never understood the people who applied to all 8 (and nothing else)...ridiculous. [/quote]

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