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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's make this productive; What is the standard?

For the World: Oxbridge + HYPSM?
For the US: HYPSM + WASP? Also notice the NE lean.
For US Public: the UCal System?

My standard question is: Is it worth the extra $ vs in-state VA school tuition?  For a lot of highly ranked schools the answer leans No! But the kid wants what the kid wants. [/quote]

This person’s (and their ilk) perspective ruins most threads on this board. Striver NoVa mom, we get it. There are only 10 schools worth going to over Virginia Tech. Glad you could work your talking points into a discussion about NE bias. [/quote]

lol - VA Tech booster; I know you &quot;we're ranked #13 in engineering&quot; you know we have UVA and W&M that are known as little ivies. Surprised you didn't include the other two on your list.

The question was  &quot;standard&quot;. What does this forum consider as a standard or bar?  Just saying what DCUM is thinking.

What I think are worth it that can't be found in VA:

Olin - Project based learning and very few tests. For the kid who isn't a test taker.
Williams - Tutorial method not many choices for someone looking for this in the US. I know this is WASP.
Babson - I like the hands on approach to Entrepreneurship.
Harvey Mudd - the engineering culture. It started our for kids who get a 700+ math and &lt; 600 verbal.  Now you have to do 700+ in both.

I want to look at Rose-Hulman but cannot find why it's ranked so high? why is it ranked higher than Mudd but close to GMU.'s acceptance rate

GMU another hidden VA Gem - great professors, close to home, and access to year-round internships.

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PP here. Couldn’t give two sh*ts about VTech. Or UVa, W&M, JMU, Mason, CNU or any of the other commonwealth schools. The “standard” poster said only those 10ish schools were better than VA in state. VTech is an in state school, and lots of NoVa striver moms love to complain about their “high stats kids” not getting into UVA or W&M. So if you’re gonna take the position that it’s Ivy+ or VA in state, you better be cool with Tech, or JMU or whatever because UVA is promised to no one. [/quote]

Did you read before replying?  I gave 4 others that are not IVY+ but still worth going to. And I took the position that GMU was a hidden gem. I'm sure for the kid there are schools I missed beyond those 4.

What are you angry at?  It looks like you are angry that DCUM looks down on non IVY?  I took the position on: cost + what the school offers vs in-state . Does the extra = cost? depends on what you are looking for? U of Hawaii worth the extra cost? you decide and don't care about what DCUM thinks. In a few years the DCUM sentiment will change anyways. [/quote]

I read that you called me a booster for VTech in response to my prior post. Maybe you should read yourself and stop trying so hard to be clever. [/quote]

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