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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS attends one of the 4th tier, low prestige schools. The school sent lots of kids to UVA, VT, W&M this year, as they do every year, plus a number get into Ivies, MIT, CMU, UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, Duke, Hopkins, etc.

So your “prestige” rankings are meaningless. Or maybe they even work against you, if you believe colleges have “quotas” from each high school.

Nobody cares what high school you went to. And a few years after you graduate from college, nobody will care what college you went to.[/quote]
Right...did you mean to say they sent some kids to VT (easiest to get into) because the rest were rejected from UVA and WandM?[/quote]

As a parent of a child who was accepted to UVA, WM, and VT, I think this is an awful slam.  DD picked WM because of the location and size.  Not because of the prestige.  She is also more of a liberal arts person.

I have another child who was accepted to a "2nd tier" Virginia school--ranked lower than VT-- and he has done just fine.  LIkely makes more $$ than his sibling if that is your measure.

Picking based on prestige is not a good idea.  It is where your child fits in and is more comfortable.

FWIW, I've never known anyone who went to VT and did not really, really like it.[/quote]

+1.  The main thing you see when you compare less affluent schools with more affluent schools is that the former send a lot more kids to NVCC, GMU, and VCU.  The latter send a lot more kids to T20 schools, SLACs, and (especially) out of state flagships.  Every FCPS high school will send a fair number of kids to other state schools in Virginia, including VT, although the higher rated schools send more kids to UVA.  W&M seems to like IB schools.  [/quote]

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