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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][b]What does your DD want? Seems more like this is your dream. [/b] I would focus on what she wants once she starts visiting colleges. [/quote]

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"Getting into an Ivy" is never a good goal to have. Goals like "becoming a doctor," "becoming a software engineer," "being a writer," or "working to solve climate change/COVID/HIV" are all good goals to have. But aiming for the Ivies with no idea of what you want post-grad is a recipe for disaster -- and frankly, a recipe I see too many kids in this area fall into. [/quote]

[b]There are just many on DCUM obsessed with getting their child into an Ivy without any thought whatsoever as to the best fit for their child. [/b]They would probably sell their mother to get their child into any Ivy if they could. Its kind of pathetic given that there are so many great colleges that are better than the Ivies depending on the child and what he or she wants to study.[/quote]

[b]Really? I don't see that here.[/b] If anything, I see way too much praise for mediocre LACs that have "a way better undergrad experience than a place like Harvard!" [/quote]

Uh, it's pretty hard to miss[/quote]

See the comment above you:

"They also told me that for graduate admissions, they really like kids from SLACs because they know they were well-educated."

Hahaha. As if a Grinnell degree opens the same doors as one from HYPS. [/quote]

For graduate school admissions at the Ivies? Grinnell definitely opens the same doors. Possibly more. [/quote]

If you do well at HYPS undergrad, you don't even have to go to grad school. The kids I know at the top of their class from HYPS are not even going to grad school for the most part. They're walking straight into six figure jobs in consulting, investment banking, private equity, and product management. I don't see that happening at Grinnell (although it's possible a school like Williams or Amherst might be more conducive to that).

Plus, I'll have to admit that it's a little odd when SLAC boosters promote their high admissions rates into PhD programs. PhDs almost always have a negative ROI (even the ones in STEM), and many PhD students are extremely depressed as they realize that all their hard work was mainly for no financial reward. [/quote]

The PhDs are much, much happier than the miserable souls working in IB or PE. Dear God that’s an unhappy bunch of drug users. [/quote]

Both groups are miserable, but at least the IB/PE folks are being paid to be unhappy. [/quote]

This x million. And so many doors are open to you through PE/IB. [/quote]

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