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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll give an in state example. My kid is a Junior. 4.75 weighted GPA. Strong SATs. One parent is alumni of W&M. It’s not a given (obviously), but our counselor thinks our kid has a very good chance to get into W&M ED. But we visited W&M and didn’t really like it. My kid realizes she wants to be in an urban environment. We’re from Richmond. Where is basically the only urban college in the state college in VA? VCU. VCU would be a great cultural fit for my kid. But I admit we’re both pretty hung up on the huge ranking difference. Like why did she do SO much work? So, I don’t know what we will do. Other options are looking at urban schools in other medium sized cities. (New York, Boston, etc…were too big for her.) Or I mean so what if she DOES go to VCU? She’d get in the honors college. She could easily double major. She’d probably get some kind of scholarship. But I have to admit the snobby part of me would feel like she could go somewhere “better.” But my husband and I both did parts of our education at VCU, and we both had great experiences! [/quote]

She worked hard so she would have options, from which to choose. 
Not so she could impress people on social media.

(Didn't you also raise her to try her best?)

The best choice from among those options is personal, not something she should dictate to USNWR.[/quote]

Oh, yeah! You are totally right! Someone on here recommended that Jeff Selingo book to me, and it was really great. In it, he mentions how easy it is to get caught up in the snobbery of the school choice. I mean, I know she has a 4.75 but I don't go telling everyone that. Somehow it does bother me that people will think she couldn't get in somewhere "better." I know it's really stupid. I know it doesn't matter. I know "better" is subjective. Like I said, my husband and I have both done parts of our own educations at VCU and both had good experiences with great professors.

But it less stupid for her to be "lucky" enough to get into like Haverford and then come out with us spending $320,000, so I can tell everyone she went to Haverford? No. It wouldn't be stupid if she was totally in love with Haverford and it was the perfect fit for her, but since she doesn't really know what she wants except that now she think she wants an urban campus in a medium sized city--it kind of would be dumb for us to shell out all that money because that's A LOT of money for us. [/quote]

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