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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Arlington and I attended an Ivy. But the cost is too high now and I’ll encourage my kids to apply to state schools. I bet there are a lot of others in similar situations.[/quote]

Same for me. I went to Yale but can’t afford an Ivy for my daughter. She can go to any in state school in Virginia. [/quote]

I find it telling that so many Ivy grads can’t afford to send their kid to an Ivy. DH and I both went to a state school. We can easily afford private HS,  Ivy tuition, second home, etc. I guess it’s really not the golden ticket everyone thinks it is. Smart kids do well wherever they go. [/quote]

You are mistaken. My husband and I are ivy undergrad and ivy graduate school. But we live here because we chose careers in public service. Our degrees have certainly opened a lot of doors and given us flexibility to do what we love.  [b]But we think our kids can have the same success at an instate school [/b](both of us came from parts of the country with poor to mediocre in state options). I find it telling that you judge the quality of a degree by how much money you earn. [/quote]

The whole point of my post is that kids can be successful wherever they go. And, yes, not everyone defines success the same way. You working in public service doesn’t somehow make you more successful than some one doing a job they love with significant compensation. Your post comes off as a classic Ivy Leaguer, like you are somehow better because you went to Ivy and you are now doing so much good in the world!!! I am a state school booster. I think UVA and Tech are great. Surely you aren’t naïve enough to think that the posters on this thread saying that you are only happy with UVA because your kid can’t get into an Ivy believe that a low income from public sector work is the desired outcome of an Ivy education. [/quote]

Do agree that smart kids can succeed anywhere. Don’t agree with much of anything else in your original post. Most of which you’ve conveniently omitted here. You claimed people’s ivy league degrees had diminished value because they didn’t make enough money to send all their kids to Ivy League. We pointed out that some people CHOOSE jobs that pay less than private sector because it is what they want to do. No one said we were better. We just said we didn’t judge the value of our degree by whether we could afford a second home. You clearly do. But suffice it to say that we have different views about what it means to be happy and successful and also different views about the value of a good education.  We’ll have to agree to disagree. [/quote]

I actually don't judge the value of my Ivy degree by the outcome at all, whether it be prestigious public service or high income. It was most valuable to me because of the education I received there and the experience I had, which was not just the professors/classes, but was also due to the amazing peer group I was with. I think you can get a great education and outcomes at lots of other colleges, but I still appreciate the experience that I had. [/quote]

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