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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, yes, because we emphasize academics, believe the education, classmates, and overall experience is superior at an excellent school, and have kids with the expected stats. That said, a parent can’t expect the unreasonable. If your kid isn’t taking a rigorous curriculum, getting excellent grades, scoring a 34/1500 on the ACT/SAT, then it’s not realistic to expect admission to prestigious college. In that case, one can’t be embarrassed about something that was never obtainable. [/quote]

But excellence and prestige are not necessarily the same thing.[/quote]

True dat. My DC wants to ED Carleton.  One of her friends Moms (who doesn’t have the best social skills) asked why she’d apply to a school no one had ever heard of.   Excellent SLAC.   Not necessarily prestigious in the DMV. [/quote]

Kinda like UVA is not necessarily prestigious outside the DMV.[/quote]

How is a school with a 21% acceptance rate and average test scores in the 97th percentile not prestigious? Put this in perspective, out of every 100 students taking the SAT or ACT, on average, only 3 will score high enough to meet UVA’s AVERAGE accepted test score. That’s not including all the students who do not take the test because they don’t go to college. People on DC urban really need to start putting things in perspective and get out of their bubble.[/quote]

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