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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the OP realize that this is a DC site? What college comparable to Tufts can my DC resident children attend for $30k. Please, tell me so I can stop saving and go on a damn vacation. [/quote]

But what do you mean by “comparable”?  Any state school will give you an excellent education for much cheaper. What exactly are you getting for 2 or 3x the price?[/quote]

Again, please find me an excellent state school that costs $30k OOS. Please![/quote]

Florida state[/quote]

LOL Florida State is not equivalent to Tufts[/quote]

Can you articulate why?  This is what I’m trying to get at and no one can give a concrete answer. [/quote]

What school does your child go to? What does a Better school in your county or district have that yours doesn't? ......... same thing for colleges really.
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An honest person, finally!
It’s a wealthy cohort. That’s what you’re paying for. Makes sense.

My kid it as Blair. With the poors. And doing great. I guess what’s why I don’t understand paying 80k. We’re ok with the economic diversity. [/quote]

So stay on that path for college. Why do you care why a Sidwell parent would want to pay for private college? You're living in different worlds.

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It’s pure curiosity. I am intrigued by the willingness to spend so much. We could if we had to, but this isn’t mandatory so we won’t. [/quote]

Good for you. Other people who can decide to spend more [/quote]

Of course they can. I’m just curious if they think their kid is getting a better education than someone at Florida State. [/quote]

Yes they do, which is precisely why they do not care what you think, no matter how many times you post, OP.

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I do think many private schools/smaller schools provide an overall better educational experience than the large state schools.  
My kids have not had to fight to get into the courses they want/need.  They do not sit in lecture halls with 200+ students (except for Chem and Bio 101/102 which are often 1 lecture of 200-300 students and much smaller labs and discussion sections but it's not 300+). My kids have not had 300+ in their Calc 1 courses, it's been 30-50.   I'd argue that yes, Chem/Bio 101/102 can easily be taught with larger lectures, I know from experience you can still ask questions during lecture with only 200-250 students if you sit in the front---I did that 30 years ago.   But I cannot imagine taking calculus 1&2 with 150+ students vs 30-40 and calling the 150+ a better experience.  It simply isn't. Sure your kid can do it an survive, but the smaller classes will 99% of the time provide the better experience.  
At our highly ranked large state school, kids fight to get the courses they need.  They fight to get into their desired major.  If you are not directly admitted to your major, then you fight to get in (and often do not).  99% of STEM majors are direct admit, so if you don't get into your major, there isn't a simple fallback that you would want.  You can either try for direct admission to engineering or CS, but NOT both.  Difficult to even take any CS courses beyond the basic programming unless you are in the major, so no minoring in it like so many kids want to do.  Business and economics are also "impacted/direct admit".  Even kids who are directly admitted often take 5 years simply to get into the classes they need.  
Me personally, I don't call that "an amazing experience".  We can afford it, so while all 3 of my kids got into the flagship state school and got "into their anticipated major area" they chose to attend smaller, private universities.  2 of them (ranked in the 50-100 range) and it actually cost the same as the flagship state U did.  the 3rd is at a highly ranked private and we are paying the $80K+[/quote]

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