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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no bias, one daughter in college and a senior not applying to High Point. PPs do not know what they are talking about. High Point provides a stellar education in an encouraging environment—and gives merit aid. It is a fine choice. A girl my daughters age who was All Met athlete in soccer, straight A student and 35 on ACT is at High Point. And loving it. Don’t be so closed minded. Some kids don’t want to freeze their asses off at Amherst.[/quote]

Comparing high point to Amherst? Seriously? 😂 
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+1  she lost what little remained of her credibility with that ridiculous statement.[/quote]

DP with no connection to High Point. Unlike you, pp can probably read. She didn’t compare High Point to Amherst. She said not every high stats kid [u]wants[/u] Amherst.  Hard for you to believe, I know.

[b]The snobbery on this board is ridiculous.[/b] “How dare that college market itself!” “So sleazy!”  My DC has gotten a ridiculous amount of marketing material from SLACS and Harvard. Does that make them sleazy?

Like it or not, the American way is to encourage everyone (even, *shock*) average students, to go to college. Where do you think they’re going to go? And as pp points out, not every high stats kid is fighting to get into a New England USNWR “top 20.” We’ve also seen the increasing number of college applicants make formerly easy admit schools quite competitive. Why wouldn’t you think that effect would trickle down? Smart college administrators (and it sounds like High Point has some) are taking advantage of that.

And before anyone says I’m being defensive, my kid has the grades and test scores to get into any college in America, and I come back to this board only because there is occasionally good info, but the casual cruelty for anyone who chooses to even consider an option outside the range of “acceptable” colleges is dismaying. It also makes me really glad that we don’t live in the DC area anymore, so my DC doesn’t have to deal with this on a day to day basis. [/quote]

Doth protest too much for someone with "no connection."  The irony in your post is amazing.  High Point IS the epitome of snobbery.  It is for rich kids -- regardless of stats and that is how they market themselves.  Which is totally fine but pointing out what they are isn't some sort of slight on non high stat kids (of which I have two).  It is a slight on High Point which is known through out the land as the rich kid joke school where your laundry is done for you and there is a pool in the middle of campus.

I do live in DC and have two non high stat kids who are in fine schools which DCUM kind sort of like on a good day when the stars align.  I also went to a DCUM very acceptable college but my kids don't.  Guess what my kids didn't have here in DC?  Any pressure to go to a school approved by DCUM.

High Point is a joke and will continue to be a joke, for the rich kids.[/quote]

You don’t understand true snobbery, if you think it’s about money. 
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