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[quote=Anonymous]Probably too late already, but I would have made him attend the admitted students weekend or day at the school he wants to attend along with the Ivy you are obsessed about.  His potential future peers at the two schools might make the decision easy, i.e. he will either realize his original choice is not intellectual enough or whatever you are worried about, or he will feel validated because he has a horrible time at preview because he doesn't like the other people.

All this said one of my two DDs ended up at an Ivy that is likely one of the ones you are obsessing about, and my other DD who was as strong a student decided quite early she did not want large, competitive Ivy environment and instead chose a top NESCAC SLAC to apply to ED (athletics entered into the decision at well, wanted to play d3 at a top school not have the demands of D1 even at an Ivy).  While both have been extremely happy, academically challenged and pleased with the choices they made, the differences in terms of networking, summer opportunities and resources for student research and travel is quite strikingly different between the two schools.  So part of me wishes the younger DD had considered waiting and looking more seriously at these schools because of the incredible opportunities they can offer both in college and in terms of jobs even immediately after college without grad school.[/quote]

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