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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You definitely need to stop talking about it but if you do talk about it with your kid, try to focus on folks you know that are successful without that degree. In our house, both me and DH are very successful in our careers and both went to inexpensive state colleges ranked very much lower than Ivys. Even when our kids started chasing prestige a little, we reminded them of ourselves and others who are successful from lots of paths.

And for a more recent example, my oldest graduated a private school that is definitely ranked between 50 and 100 and is doing great. He is on his second job of his career (after being recruited from his first job to an offer that is more money and better) and he is making money and doing what he set out to do.  He also lives in NYC, his first choice location. There are a lot of paths and jobs and the Ivy kids are not the only ones to be successful.[/quote]

Your example isn’t great…your kid still attended a college in the top 2% of all colleges in the country.

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DP: My kid had acceptances at 5 schools ranked from 70-100.  All with merit, the two privates with 35% of tuition/year.  My kid had a 1240/3.5UW/No AP/basic ECs.  And they had a pick of several schools in the 70-100 range.  Had we needed money, they had two ranked in the 120-140 range with excellent merit (one with 75% of tuition at a private that is currently ~$70K total costs).

So yes, for any kid who seriously thinks they have the resume for a T25-30 school, there are so many schools they can get admitted to, with great merit in just the 50-100 range.  I get my kid is above average (remember 1250 on SAT puts you at 85/86percentile nationally--that's damn good still).  
And why yes, those schools are still in the top 2-5% of schools nationally.  Hence why snobs and everyone needs to realize an excellent education can be had for good price, just look outside the tippy top schools.

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