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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my goodness, all of you are so smart to not be applying to Harvard from Arlington Public Schools so you won’t have to pay those exorbitant tuition fees for an overpriced  education that just isn’t worth it anymore.   Said all the people who had ZERO chance of admission.  [/quote]

Amazingly, a lot of us are not obsessed with the Ivies. Many of us in DC are from places that did not have great in-state options and wanted to get out and could get into an Ivy in the 90's if we were the top student at our school and had good SAT scores. But in 2024--we live in Virginia, the in-state options are pretty good, what kids have to do to try to get into an Ivy is insane and its still a crapshoot, plus if they get in it costs 4x what UVA or W&M or VT costs, so....why would we act like Princeton or Yale is the be-all, end-all for them?

It might have been my ticket out of Maine but my UMC kid from McLean has lots more choices than I did. If they want to apply to OOS schools, that's fine, we'll find a way to swing the difference in tuition. But we have not created a culture at home that we [i]expect [/i]them to go out of state or to a "T20" college. I didn't grow up with that pressure and I'm not putting it on my kids.    [/quote]

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