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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's my thinking on the CTCL issue.  Generally speaking, the schools' target audience is parents who really wish their kids could go top ranked private colleges but know that they can't.  The book feeds into this insecurity by marketing the schools as somehow special.  But they're not.  They're mediocre and tend to attract underachievers with disappointed parents -- a recipe for low graduation rates.

If I were a parent of a B student (I wasn't), there's no way in hell I'd pay private school tuition to send my kid to a school full of pampered underachievers.  I'd look instead at the top 10-15 schools on the regional university list on US News.  Take the northeast region, for example.  A half dozen of the top 10 -- Providence, Loyola of Maryland, Fairfield, Scranton, St Joe's -- are Catholic and mostly Jesuit.  They are full of B students who worked hard in high school.  They offer practical programs and practical degrees, virtually all of them have graduation rates  above 80 percent -- which virtually none of the CTCL schools do -- and the students get good jobs.  And it's not as if the schools have less name recognition; no one's heard of most of the CTCL schools at all.

To me, it comes down to who your peer group is.  Are your fellow B students hard workers from solid families, or underachievers with pampering parents?  [b]You the former to rub off on your kid, not the latter. [/b]       [/quote]

I mean you WANT the former to rub off . . . [/quote]

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