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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Selective colleges are worth it for extremely bright people who are unlikely to meet equally bright people anywhere else, and for other bright people who love learning alongside other people who like learning.[/b]

For kids who aren’t that bright or aren’t that interested in learning, going to an elite school is pointless. Those kids miss out on great keggers at less selective schools and crowd out kids who would have a lot of fun meeting the general education requirements.

Parents who jam kids into those schools are ruining both their own kids’ lives and the lives of the kids who really need those schools. [/quote]

Except that due to rising college costs, many extremely bright people are at schools that are now selective but didn't used to be.  UMD-CP Honors College, for example, is heavily populated by Blair math/science magnet graduates - half the class each year matriculates at UMD, and it's not because they are not qualified to attend elite schools.[/quote]

If this is true, then forward-looking parents who want their kids to rub shoulders with the best kids ought to be sending them
to the University of Maryland College Park, not Tufts.

Maybe Cal Tech, Princeton and Harvard will still get a lot of rocket scientist sharks because they have such great aid, but the extracurricular requirements the Top 30 schools are setting effectively shut out bright, dreamy kids who are reading, writing and creating on their own. Those are great kids, and they’re going to be flowing to the state flagships. The schools ranked about 8 through 30 looks as if they’re on track to enroll rich kids plus obedient little admissions robots who think they’re all going to be tech company founder billionaires. They’re planting the seeds for their own decay. 
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Do you understand that money is an issue for most people?[/quote]

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