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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Selectivity &#8800 quality
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How many kids whose dream school is Michigan really will hit the academic (or social or whatever) ceiling at Kansas (admit rate >90%)? 1%? 5%? Surely not 10%. Same is true for Williams rejects at St. Lawrence (admit rate almost 50%) or Whitman (admit rate >50%). Or Vandy rejects at Miami of Ohio (admit rate >90%). Or Carleton rejects at Wooster (admit rate >60%). Etc., etc., etc.

Kids (and especially their parents!) just need to recognize that they can be admitted to a school that will fit them and offer a great education--and get over that it might not appear on the first page of some ridiculous "ranking" list.[/quote]

This post really should be a header on DCUM.

There are very smart and driven kids at every single institution.  My husband and I went to third tier schools. We had MANY very smart and driven peers.  Some went on to top graduate/medical schools, some did not and entered the workforce out of undergrad. 
If you look at them on paper now, they are indistinguishable from our peers/friends who went to top20 schools.  My husband and I (with our third tier degrees) are sitting here this morning in upper NW DC, in a multi-million dollar home with kids at a top DC private.
You can't tell the difference between us and our Ivy league neighbors, friends, fellow school parents and colleagues. 
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Exactly how we feel until our DC submitted applications. Legacy parents do make a difference. HS would be more fun and easy if DC didn’t work so hard. [/quote]

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