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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From these posts, it strikes me that a lot of Top 25 kids would be more comfortable at a Top 26-50 school. Basically, they could get a great education without the cut throat competition and sole focus on academics. [/quote]

[b]I think it's because times have changed and the parents know their kids can't get into the schools that their parents now say they wouldn't want their kids to go to anyway.  A defense mechanism.[/b][/quote]

I was actually thinking the same thing.[/quote]

There is a lot to this. The HYPMS and elite LACs are under 8% admits, and other T20 are under 15%, and our views could be partly a defense mechanism or living in reality.

Another way to look at it is that when many of us inevitably attended the most prestigious of our admits back in the day, we now know that prestige isn't always the best basis to go somewhere for four years. I posted about the competitiveness of my experience, and DH went to HYP where he had a great experience but he was an athlete so the experience would not be the same for DC, a non-athlete. I think some of the LACs are truly a better fit for our kids. And that is okay.[/quote]

I went to a NESCAC school and had a great experience. A friend who went to Duke and another friend who went to Stanford, both said they wish they had gone to my school instead. [/quote]

What a ridiculous post. Interesting that the poster targets two elite schools by name that the poster did NOT attend, yet refuses to name the NESCAC that he/she supposedly attended. Hard to believe that one would give up attending Stanford or Duke to attend any NESCAC school.[/quote]

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