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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]

+1[/quote]

As long as the DD is having fun, getting decent professors and getting the classes she needs, the state flagship is probably comparable to someplacee like Washington University or Northwestern, and the students she actually hangs out with are probably kids who are comparable to kids at the top private schools.

I think that, especially in their regions, the big state flagships have better recognition with the general public than most of the fancy private schools, anyway.

The real reason to focus on private schools is if your state flagship is expensive or weak, or just too big or culturally inappropriate to suit the student.[/quote]

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