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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What school has you scratching your head when you see one of DC’s friends attend?[/quote]

Northeastern, Colby, Rhodes
& mid tier state schools OOS (UGA, UTenn, Clemson, UC Irvine) when they got into William&Mary or VT 
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Colby is in the top 10% of LACs in the country.  You don’t have to love the college, but why would that make you scratch your head?

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Northeastern, Colby, Rhodes are usually picked by students who got into William and Mary and in some cases better LACs yet chose these schools, at full price, when they are not a good, objectively, on many measures. [/quote]

Northeastern gets top tier students.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10[/quote]

Colby is also in the top 50.
What's Rhodes?? Never heard of it.
PP is weird.[/quote]
Rhodes is Amy Coney Barret's alma mater, so you can judge from that...[/quote]

Over 50% acceptance rate.
I'll judge ftom that.[/quote]
I don't really care for acceptance rates. Just a status symbol for how few you're willing to educate and how much you can game USNews.[/quote]

You sound ignorant.
Acceptance rate doesn't affect USNews ranking.

However I care. 
50% acceptance rate means 1 out of 2 can easily walk in. That affects quality of the student body a lot.
I want my smart kid surrounded by other smart kids. 
 It's very important.  
It determines the level of classes and students learn from other students a lot.   
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I know what an acceptance rate is. I think your smart child can find smart people at many more places than you consider however. I went to a top college, and boy, for being the "smartest" people in the collegiate space, there sure were a bunch of dummies around. Your kid ultimately will decide who they hang out with.[/quote]

Yes to this. My friend’s kid busted her rear to attend and T20 and was shocked at how dumb some of her classmates were. Legacy or donor kids.

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Or just full pay with lots of tutoring and college prep help. [/quote]

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