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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My super stat DD is at our state flagship honors college. There's no doubt that if we had been full pay she would be somewhere else - first she could have applied ED at her top choice and we also could have applied some places we didn't - think top 20-30 - and some of the rejections and waitlists likely would have fallen the other way. I can tell by the admits from the public HS she attended - there's no doubt. Frankly, the data shows that she would have been much better off being a star athlete that a star academic.

It breaks my heart a little bit as she earned it I just couldn't afford it. And in the life the social connections of those schools to which she was not admitted will matter but I also believe in my daughter and that she will bloom where she is planted. And I think she will be alot less cuddled so in early 20's when she is starting her career she will be formidable and I believe hiring managers will see that. It's a matter of getting those first interviews but as they say persistence beats resistance. And if she decides on med school well then we be grateful we didn't take out the undergraduate loans.

That said, perhaps sour grapes, but there is a certain sense of entitlement/privilege that I sense in the original poster. Full pay is a hook and ED is the filter. [/quote]

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I went to an Ivy bc that is where you went if you were smart at my east coast private school.  I had access to those so-called vaunted social connections but I found most of those people meh. I made a close set of friends at my Ivy but we all were people who swam against the social stream (my best friend went to boarding school, joined the so-called cool sorority as a freshman but dropped out bc the ppl were not her scene).  Ppl at my college couldnt wait to get to NYC and work for wall street. I came to DC and sought a career in public service and have a raft of friends from mid-western flagship colleges. They were the middle class kids and this was where smart kids from their schools went. They are dynamic people, smart, outgoing and hardworking; they all have terrific careers.  Ivies (or equivalent colleges) are not everything. [/quote]

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