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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UMC white kids including those at Big 3s can write off the top 25 schools regardless of grades and test scores unless they have developed a cure for cancer or the equivalent or qualified for the Olympics.

Ask me how I know.

So just sit back and let your child find an OK school that resonates with them.[/quote]

Ok.  But where are  the kids that want to cure cancera nd have started to learn how to try to do it supposed to go to college if not to a top research institution?  what exactly do you propose for the super geeks?[/quote]

There are plenty of other schools that do great work.  In fact, at a smaller, lesser known school your undergraduate will actually be able to do research with faculty, which does not happen as often in the well known research universities because they are usually ranked based on graduate programs and guess who does the research there?  If they get a good undergrad foundation, grad school is really where they learn to cure cancer.  My freshman has a summer fellowship doing research in a lab at a small, but good, school. I doubt she would have gotten that opportunity at a more brand name research university.[/quote]

There better be quality undergraduate research opportunities at top schools like MIT etc. because that is what they are selling these kids when they try to get them to commit.[/quote]

The point is not that it’s terrible to go to MIT or Yale. The point is that almost every kid who thinks he might realistically go to MIT or Yale will be rejected, so what are other good options? [/quote]

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