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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh?  Have you seem the instagrams for the Big3 and compared them to other schools adjusted for numbers?

UC's are an exception, I will grant you that, but state schools in the other 49 states, and private schools in all 50 states, take kids from Big3's all the time. [/quote]

I personally know kids at these schools that ended up at places like Michigan, NYU, Tufts, Wesleyan, etc. (all amazing colleges). But, these same kids were definitely Ivy material if they weren't applying from within the cutthroat applicant pool of these prep schools.

It's not uncommon at all to see kids in their senior year openly say "I would have a better shot at an Ivy if I weren't applying from Sidwell/NCS/STA, etc." The competition to get into an Ivy from these schools is extremely fierce because applicants are compared to others from their same school. [/quote]
Why are people so obsessed with ivies?  Do they all want their kids to be consultant?  I have been to an IVY as a graduate student, honestly, if one wants to make real world impact, especially in the science and research field, there is no need for an IVY.  The top 50 might be good enough. Ivy education helps but not deterministic at all. One can always go to graduate schools. [/quote]

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