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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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I was feeling nervous from reading these threads about high stat kids getting rejected. In actuality, a lot of kids get into good schools. I mean if your kid has a 3.0, no but [b]if your kid has almost straight As with rigor, 1500+ SAT and good extracurricular activities (not just sports), your kid should get into a T50.[/quote][/b]

Folks...this is lunacy...only the top 1% of all HS students score 1500+ on the SAT.  There are several schools in the T50 where you can get accepted with stats much less than this (with basically no ECs)...and many in the top 100.[/quote]

I was referencing my older child. I have no idea what my middle and younger child will be like in a few years.

Yes, it is hard to make sports teams. It is hard to get into a competitive college. There are plenty of average colleges and average people in the world. Many government workers went to no brand schools. You can become a nurse at any state school. The majority of the world is average.[/quote]

WTF are you even talking about?  You mentioned that it takes these incredible scores to get into a Top 50...it was then pointed out that there are several Top 50 schools where you don't need these scores...now it seems the Top 50 schools where those scores are not needed are "average colleges", I guess because they aren't as selective as you like?

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There is more than one person posting. I am simply saying that there is a school for everyone. I should not have written BU or Northeastern. I know that depending on the family, these schools are out of reach. My oldest would be disappointed with these schools as well as UVA. I am very well aware that acceptance rates are low.

I don’t know anyone in real life who talks about or really wants to go to BU or Northeastern. I only read about it on these boards. We do know many people who shoot for Ivy+ other T30 schools and they all end up at decent schools with Elon, VT and Santa Clara type schools being at the bottom.[/quote]

This is really area dependent. We live in TX in a rich area. We are the poor ones with a $600k HH income. Average HHI is 7 figures and most people went to state schools like Texas and A+M. Trust funds and business owners or C level execs. The ivy league doctors and engineers are the more average and middle class people in the area. People don’t really care about their kids going to top ranked schools. A solid school, yes but very few even try to go to the super competitive ones. Northwestern and BU would be considered pretty elite and impressive in our area. [/quote]

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