Reply to Ever disappointed when you look at lists of where kids are going to college?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Ever disappointed when you look at lists of where kids are going to college?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]One question I have about these discussions is whether disappointment reflects unrealistic expections, rather than truly disappointing results suggesting that attendance at a Big 3-type school is not really a leg up in any respect.  Are folks finding that average to somewhat above average students (think a mix of A-/B+/B), with parallel test scores are not getting into the stronger public Big 10 schools (think Michigan and Wisconsin), fairly strong (though not tippy top) private universities (think Emory, NYU, or Tulane), or strong (though again, not tippy top) privates (think Colgate, Bucknell, Kenyon, Oberlin)?  In other words, are we dealing here with disappointment that average students at these schools are not getting into the Ivy league or the very strongest non-Ivy privates or SLACs?  The matriculation lists suggest that the majority of students are getting into schools that are nothing to sneeze at (e.g, at least at the BU or Wisconsin level), unless one is dead set on the very top.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics