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[quote=Anonymous]10:07 -- I'm not making a state university vs LAC argument.  I'm making a LAC vs major research university argument.  (The only time I've mentioned public schools was to rebut the assumption that the tradeoff would be state school + higher GPA vs "reach" LAC vs lower GPA.  Hard to tell, I know, with so many people posting and all anonymously).

So the question doesn't have to be Berkeley vs Amherst.  It could be Harvard or UChicago or MIT or Wharton or Hopkins vs. elite LAC.

10:14 -- I went to a public HS in a college town -- lots of writing and critical thinking and lively classrom discussions, mediocre science (though I think that's improved dramatically, judging by science contest results).  But I was thinking less of my own HS experience than my kid's in a local "Big 3" --  in part because DC's experience is more recent and in part because IME, it's typically the parents of kids who went to schools like DC's that make the LACs are the gold standard argument.  To me, it's more of the same, BTDT.  And, yeah, I am talking about exceptionally good high schools, but my point is that the ideal HS and the ideal college should not look the same.[/quote]

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