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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a huge fan of community colleges.  Know several people who went for a couple of years and then graduated from a better known (and more $) school.  Same degree, less $.

Our college counselor best lesson was introducing me to the concept of 'lottery schools'.   That there are 10 kids for every spot that all have almost perfect stats, so 9 kids don't get in.

It is all so more more competitive than it was for me in the late seventies.  [/quote]

I think with lottery schools its not that there are 10 kids with the right qualifications for fighting for every spot. Its that among kids with the qualifications, each applies to 10 schools but can only attend 1. There has been research done (notably by Kevin Carey at New American Foundation) that the number of ppl who perform at the top of standardized testing is relatively equal to the number of freshman spots available at elite schools combined.

Sure a kid might have a top 10 US news school as its first choice but only get admitted to a top 20 school.  Both are "lottery" in that they reject a huge number of the ppl who apply. Once admitted a student's outcomes are much more about the individual's performance at school and in life (including things like soft skills and work ethic) than some transformative magic imbued upon them by attending a specific school. [/quote]

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