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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] :shock:  :shock: [quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m OP

Call me too literally but I just wanted a list of colleges people think are of high enough quality to be worth $90k if one could afford it. [/quote]

Is this your first appearance after 25 pages of chaos? 😂[/quote]

OP - I was shocked! 😳 Still hoping for some college names 😂[/quote]

Hi OP-
I am one of the mom's with a happy kid (stem sophomore male) at an Ivy.  Rather than names of schools (which will set the trolls off again), my recommendation to you is to think about how your DC learns/engages and then judge the private schools you are interested in (though out of state at say Cal or UCLA will be over 80k).

For example; our son focused on class size and access to professors and based on tours as well as discussions with current students he realized both of those were less available at the public flagships. He also was interested in a double major and was looking for colleges that were strong in both subjects and where it was not difficult to register for classes since getting prerequisites for two subjects is hard enough already.  He also is very involved in extracurriculars and wanted a school large enough to have variety, for him some of the smaller schools lacked the variety in EC he wanted.  
As parents we wanted 4 years guaranteed housing, some publics have it but many don't (at Michigan most sophomore's live off campus and the process of finding roommates and renting a place actually starts pretty early in freshman year).  We also wanted him to have faculty advising, i.e. wanted him to get some guidance from things other than other students and the internet in terms of teachers, courses etc.  
Things we got but didn't expect and now really value- peer counseling, at our son's school there is free peer counseling in every subject .  It is super helpful for freshmen who are learning what is expected in their new environment (our son became a peer counselor and for our younger student we now know to look for it and we send him to the departments to find the student counselors and ask about the classes and professors in the departments he is most interested in- wealth of knowledge from those kids).  Lots of study spaces, turns out our son doesn't like to study in his dorm (he had never shared a room before) the lower ratio of students to numerous libraries, lounges, practice spaces etc is really important for him.  Communication from the school, we get newsletters, important updates from the president (when the shooting happened at Brown within a couple of hours, while it was still going on we received info on what our campus was doing to ensure safety) info on ways to connect with other families in our area, etc.  (I assume all schools do these things but I suspect there is pretty wide variability).

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