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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So people think that instead of Wake Forest and Tufts, high achieving upper income kids are going to be applying to Davis, Merced and Rutgers?  I don’t see it.[/quote]

No, more like Florida State, Minnesota, etc.

Not necessarily the wealthy kids but plenty of upper middle class kids will think twice. 
   
We fit in this demographic.  We have HHI $450K.  Healthy college savings.  But spending $90K for a university ranked 50 or 75 seems much less appealing than spending it on a school ranked in the 20s. 
Why not spend $25K for Florida and leave the rest for graduate, medical or law school?

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Because the dating/Mating pool of wake/Tulane alums is different than uf/fsu/mn alums

You are misreading the social product provided by schools

Dcum had threads on this almost a decade ago and it’s what separates dcum college forum from other college forums

It is/was a lot more all encompassing about schools and non-academic factors and less pc (well in the past) [/quote]

But DCUM is not representative of the population at large.  It's not even representative of the DMV.  Most people are not 
applying to college in any sort of sophisticated way.  For example, there are a ton of kids in northern Virginia who apply to every Ivy.  
Now any nuanced reader of DCUM would know that makes no sense.  But plenty of people don't. [/quote]

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