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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work at the University of Missouri. Admissions are guaranteed for 24 ACT / 1160 SAT and a 2.0+ GPA. This is the state flagship; other state schools are even easier. It's crazy to me as a native New Yorker that so many locals send their talented, accomplished kids to Mizzou. But then they are having a good time, graduating without debt and still getting into law and med school, so maybe I am the crazy one. Still trying to figure that out.[/quote]

Weird that ppl send their kids here given the peer group.[/quote]

I have no knowledge of Mizzou but why can't people just understand that kids can have accomplishments, be successful, go to grad schools, make money . . . whatever your definition of success is . . . from any school. I get that some may provide some intangibles (networks or pathways to super selective careers). But that is the exception, not the rule. Yes, even for kids at Mizzou.[/quote]

I think it has to do with the parents' and peer families' paths to success.  In the DMV, at least in Upper NW and Bethesda/CC, it seems like 75%+ of parents went to a T25 school, so there is (1) a natural tendency for them to assume the same path for their offspring (and why not), and (2), no experience with any other way since everyone in their social and professional circles all did it the same way.  If given the choice, of course everyone would go T25, but without that choice (or even the possibility that that path may not be available) it seems that people panic and become even more certain that T25 is the ONLY option, because it worked for them and everyone they deem to be "successful."  t is not, obviously.  Successful people come from everywhere (and, arguably, the most interesting successful people did not come from T25, but that's my bias showing).  But how would someone know this if their entire life was within a certain mold.

So, in a way, you're doing your kids a disservice if you don't tell them from an early age that it is the person, not the place.  That failure is a driver, not an end.  That hard work and sacrifice is necessary for success and fulfillment.  That a diploma doesn't guarantee anything.

Brag about who your kid is, not where they go.  But that's admittedly hard when the rest of the circle only views their path as the correct one.  [/quote]

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