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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid who makes it look easy. He always makes the team and excels academically. He is hoping for an ivy.

I have another kid who is borderline good at everything and a third kid who is too young to tell. Not everyone will go to a T20 college and that is ok. My middle kid will probably go to a school like BU or Penn State. Your kid can go there too.[/quote]

One of the problems is that your references to “BU and Penn State” are still top 60 colleges out of 3000…BU has a 14.4% acceptance rate…so no, most kids can’t “go there too”.

Everyone’s frame of reference is completely skewed.  So, when you say not everyone will go to a top 20, you turn around and still only think top 50ish schools are worthwhile.[/quote]

Agree with this!  LOL.  This lady feels like BU is slumming it but it's crazy hard to get into.  Frankly almost as hard as several of the Ivies. 
This area (DC) is so insane. [/quote]

Pp here. My oldest is in high school. My middle kid is only in middle school. I have been looking at acceptance rates and my oldest is looking at all colleges with sub 10% acceptance rates and I’m confident he will get in.

My 7th grader has a lot of time. From our high school, it looks like BU is around 25-30% acceptance and Penn state is higher than 50%. BU is my oldest kid’s safety.[/quote]

Seems like you are completely missing the point of the thread...or I gather you are fine with the competitive nature of the DMV.
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DH and I are both ivy educated. I agree that the landscape is very competitive. It is still relatively not that difficult to get into good schools in the top 50. I put BU and Penn State in a similar category. Maybe my kid won’t get into BU and end up at Northeastern or some school in California or Elon. Maybe he will get lucky and get into NYU or USC. Either way he will be fine. I just wrote BU as a decent good school that I think would be a good fit for my kid. No reason for you to be offended by it.[/quote]

I am not offended by it, but you seem to continue to miss the point of the thread.  You clearly like the competitive landscape, and it is difficult for you to write IU or Michigan State or any school with a 70%+ acceptance rate.

Now you reference Northeastern which has a sub-10% acceptance rate (for the Boston campus).  Your entire frame of reference is quite skewed...I wonder what "school in California" you are referring because of course the UC schools are super-competitive, and it goes without saying that Stanford is ultra-competitive (as are the Claremont schools).

So...I think you are saying that you are fine with the ultra-competitive world that OP rails against.[/quote]

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