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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son attends a local private that sends a few kids to Elon each year.  The kids that attend are are at the bottom of the class - lets just say Elon is not included in the marketing materials.  [/quote]

Exhibit A for typical DCUM snobbery.  This person has no specific or direct information about the school, no idea what its approach to education is, but can't pass up the opportunity to assert that the students who go there are dummies and her little son or daughter is, of course, superior.

Another way to spin this: Kids who weren't successful in the grind of certain DC privates found what they needed at Elon, learned to love learning and went on the great success.  You can't see this if you are fixated on your DC's college competition (and you clearly see it as a competition) but I can tell you having graduated from a Big 3, that many of the students in my class who were concerned the bottom of the class, found what they needed in their less prestigious colleges and have had hugely successful careers.[/quote]

I'm the parent of 2 "Big3" grads and a current student, and I agree completely with this statement.  In fact, I'd go further and say that some of the kids who got lucky in the admissions game and got into a "top" school might find some aspects of schools like Elon quite appealing.  For example, per the parent of a current student, I understand that Elon has an excellent academic advising program.  I wish I could say the same about the school my child attends, which is ranked in the top 5 by US News (which is, of course, always and everlastingly omniscient and omnipotent.)       [/quote]

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