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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.gallup.com/poll/168848/life-college-matters-life-college.aspx

Ugh, "Ivy League" schools -- the obsession is so...20th century.  Kids have much more pressing matters to deal with these days than their parents' vicarious social aspirations.  Really wealthy kids are the only ones that benefit from the Ivy cliques they will be a part of there.  All the rest are stuck, later, at 30 years old seeing a shrink to help them deal with how much they suffered along the way.[/quote]

Thank you!!!  I don't understand the Ivy obsession AT ALL.  Of course they're good schools, but they are not the only good schools in the country.  They are also not a good fit for every kid, regardless of how smart s/he is.  College counselors should be searching for a good match for each kid.  To me, a variety of top notch schools that are not Ivies (Williams, Carnegie Mellon, U of MI) plus some less well-known schools that gave kids big money on the basis of their excellent high school work would show a really hard-working counseling team.  My biggest concern is that my kids could graduate from a college where professors cared about them, they had friends and colleagues who supported them in their studies rather than trying to undercut them, and they had little to no debt.  That, to me, is the sign of a good college pick.  And before people make snide remarks, I have 1 kid who could probably do an Ivy but would be a bad fit in every way aside from academics and another kid for whom a small, mid-range in terms of reputation, liberal arts college would probably be the best.  Since we live in DC, I'm hoping the TAG program will still be there and #1 will go to a big research state university and #2 will go to a small state school with colleges within the university to make it even more intimate.

Ivies are not the only valuable education out there!!!![/quote]

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