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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be safe, since your kid seems to be somewhat competitive, if they can snag one of the following it’s almost never a bad investment: Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech, Duke, Yale, UPenn, Columbia. Those are top schools recognized throughout the nation with good undergrad resources and extremely low levels of financial insolvency for students after graduating. If your kid is looking for a smaller environment with more individual attention, you can make the case for Dartmouth, Rice, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore. After that each school gets increasingly more difficult to justify. In most cases schools like Brown, Vanderbilt, WashU, etc. are mostly worth it but the previous grouping is safer.[/quote]

+1 for prestige and the academics/opportunities at a low downside, safest bets are probably Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech, Duke, Yale, UPenn, and Columbia. Not sure how the numbers scandal will affect Columbia in the near future. But all of those schools have a 5% or lower acceptance rate with the strongest applicant pools, since everyone with academically talented kids are thinking the same thing. And then if you prefer intimate environments thankfully there are a whole range of good schools with more personalized educations, but you get some downside on name recognition. To me this is why Princeton is the best in the country - they give the strong undergrad focus without sacrificing on prestige.[/quote]

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