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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I must be new here.

Why do so many of you care where our DC or other kids choose to go to college? I just don't understand all the arguments   Public vs Private, blah blah blah.  Top 10-50 colleges or bust?  (You are a fool for spending $50K a year on private school) when my kids public school was free (and our public kid was accepted to the same university as your private school kid}.

What exactly is the point of these posts?  Why does it matter?  I hope that we all make decisions that we believe are best for our kids.  
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Because this forum is full of grubby and lowly middle class strivers. They have nothing else but obsessively living through the "prestige" of where their kids go to college. They are convinced a top 25 college is THE golden ticket to their family "making it" and climbing the social status ladder. It's laughably absurd, of course. The richest families I know don't give a flying f*** about any of this. Their kids go wherever they're a fit, be it a large public "party school" or a small and obscure private liberal arts college or Duke or an Ivy. It also demonstrates the parents obsessed with this nonsense were themselves educated at non-selective colleges, as parents with prestige bachelor's degrees know it isn't some golden ticket. Only low-information striver wannabes are convinced this  matters.[/quote]
Well, I'm a world-renowned Ph.D. in my field, but I must confess I'm obsessed with my kids' colleges. I can't help it. It is fascinating :)[/quote]

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