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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for posting this, OP. A great DCUM discussion piece (even if Gladwell is over- agreeing with a PP on that). In my experience, I needed the confidence boost of being a big fish in a small pond for undergrad. I figured out what I wanted to do and felt confident, after working with kind, supportive professors, to go for a PhD (at a lower Ivy). In grad school I had bouts of low confidence but ultimately made it through. I believe I would never have gone to graduate school if I’d not had the confidence boost of my college experience. Now with my kids, I see this playing out in different ways- they are all different and only one of them I think will “need” the small pond for college in order to find her way. The PP who said to each his own was spot on. I needed the small pond until I didn’t. Some of my kids will need it and not others. [/quote]
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