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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They sit in that odd in-between where they're lesser-known by the general populace, but are incredibly overhyped by those in the know.

No one cares about your Williams or Amherst or Swarthmore, and they're slowly but surely becoming increasingly irrelevant in today's higher ed landscape.[/quote]

Not really, graduates of the three schools you mentioned will have the same grad school and employment opportunities of an HYPS grad[/quote]

Keep hyping. They are not worth $80,000 per year in this age. [/quote]

My spouse and I went to Duke. My kids went to Princeton. They were not cheap by any stretch and even with the money to pay it was not an infrequent event to question the value. No regrets but there are plenty of good value options out there.

My twin went to UNC and amassed generational wealth, a PhD econometrics guy who was a Division 1 All American in athletics. UNC had a great athletics travel schedule and resources, and the school made athletics work for him while obtaining a Phi Beta Kappa in math.  Success has different paths.

I was a poor kid. Stuck with limited options, meaning an athletic scholarship. LAC’s were a better learning environment for me, but they were not a realistic choice. My first choice was Carleton, a great place for me to develop academically (unlike my twin, I had gaps and needed to catch up) and with a clear path to really do well in Division 111 athletics. Couldn’t pay for anything like Carleton.  Blanket statements about schools don’t make much sense absent personal facts and circumstances.

I had the privilege of attending a very good public high school. Our counselor reminded the top of the class that at the time Illinois Wesleyan had the highest med school admittance rate in the country. Normal Illinois is nothing special but there were several from high school who went there and became physicians. [/quote]

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