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[quote=Anonymous]Parents are so full of themselves.  Especially, the parents who went to Ivys.  From their mouth they spout out every Ivy (in fact every school) is different and fit is very important in choosing a college.  If that is true, the college that best fits a particular student is the number one school for that student.  All other colleges are in a single but different pile.  Besides, different colleges specialize in different majors (subject areas).  As an example, Harvard may live for another 1000 years, but it will never be MIT.  Each has its own core competency.  You can’t say one is better than the other.  Also, every college has its own way of filling the class - legacies, kids of celebrities, kids of major donors, recruited Athletes, First-gen, affirmative action candidates, foreign students, pure merit students, full-pay versus financial aid students, etc.  it’s absolute stupidity to rank schools.  As an aside, how do you rank your spouses?  If you think that question is idiotic, then ranking and fighting over rankings of colleges is even more idiotic.

This is how we put too much, absolutely unnecessary pressure on our children.  We subject them to unhealthy stress and we stress ourselves out.  When you get married, you choose a partner among the eligible people you come across during a certain time and the other person also happen to choose you.  You didn’t date all or even a few thousand eligible people before selecting your spouse to be.  As another example, would you rank all the athletes in all the sports into a single ranking?  Every sport is different requiring different skill set.  An individual with a certain type of skill set gravitates to a certain sport.  It doesn’t mean the athlete is pursuing number one sport or number thirty-fifth sport.[/quote]

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