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[quote=Anonymous]As a general rule, I find that parents who graduated from Ivy League schools, as my spouse and I did, aren't half as hung up on dispatching their little kids to them as those who didn't, and not just because they're secure in the knowledge that legacy preferences await. As an Ivy alum, you see college friends contending with the same sort of problems adults face everywhere - being unlucky in love, going bankrupt, getting fired or passed over for promotions, struggling to afford college, getting cancer etc. Somewhere along the way, you stop thinking in terms of an Ivy degree innoculating your children against life's hardships. Moreover, you think of brilliant and highly motivated grad school classmates who went to little colleges you'd never heard of. I'd be thrilled for my DCPS kids to get a great education anywhere there's one to be had. [/quote]
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