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[quote=Anonymous]As an immigrant working at an MDB, and the mom of super-high stats kids (magnet programs in public schools) - we did not look at getting into any college as a big deal.

We have lived in multiple countries with our kids. We did not aim for a school or college, we aimed for a career for them.  We had pretty much figured out what career path our kids were leaning out and knew that if our kids wanted to get into CS, CS-adjacent, law or medical fields - the undergrad school did not matter.

We did not quite understand the stupid competition on DCUM amongst parents about college ranking.  If your kid does not have academic chops, why does the prestige of the college matter? How does it help your child?

So, our expectation was always that our kids would be performing at the top of the classroom. That they would be globally competitive, that they would be very resilient in terms of job markets, AI, everything else the world is experiencing - through their education and experience,   and their undergrad education would cost the least amount of education money so that they can invest and earn from the money we had saved for education.

And so - yay UMD!!! [/quote]

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