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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does this thread feel like sour grapes for those who can not afford to attend the Ivy they are qualified to attend?
Ivy level schools will not ever hurt for students of the highest caliber. There is way more qualified applicants than seats at those schools. If your child can not attend such a highly rated school that is fine and your child will do well wherever they attend but the T30 schools will still have an overabundance of the top qualified students to choose from. Parents have always looked at their children with bias thinking they are more unique than they really are.[/quote]

+1000

There will also be "donut hole" families who have managed to save/make saving for education a priority.  Schools like Harvard make it affordable for families making up to 150-200K.  So while your family making 150-200K may not choose to save, there will still be plenty who do, so it will not be all "low income" and wealthy students.

Then again, it's the wealthy students who largely have the means to do the pointy ECs and win national awards, and have tutors to take 13+APs and still get all As.  So the wealthy have an easier path to "having the resume for HYPSM[/quote]

Oh please. Not all donut hold families can save $80/year per kid. Esp in high COLA areas where their jobs are. Between medical, taxes, child care early on, expenses associated with school, car payments (on very basic cars, no suburbans or Teslas here), mortgage (still in our starter home). . . . it's just not possible for two stable paid, but not wealthy, civil servants (non-SES).

So it is sour grapes. That doesn't mean that those families, like us, are wrong. [/quote]

Did not say everyone could save.  Said there will be some who figured out how to save and will attend an elite school as full pay or with minimal aid should they get accepted--not everyone in the "donut hole" area have sour grapes.   But the good news is, if you kids has the stats for an elite school, they can attend a 30-100 ranked school with great merit, making the school much more affordable.  [/quote]

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