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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Have a sophomore with less than a 3.5 GPA? Better get them ready for community college.

This is BS. Our DS with a 3.25 GPA just got into Elon, Ithaca, JMU and University of Vermont.

But I would not pay for Elon, private or OOS rates - community college is a much better deal with a transfer to UVA. I'm not pay $47,000 a year for Elon.

^^ in other words, some LACS and lesser known colleges are just not worth the cost. Those are not great schools. If you are in-state, then JMU makes a lot of state. But I would not pay full freight for lesser known schools like Elon or OOS tuition at the Univ. of Vermont.[/quote]

I'd rather have my kid go to a "lesser school" (that's still ranked highly compared to about 3000+ other schools) than be unhappy in community college or be an insufferable snob.  My 3.4 kid got into OOS schools ranked around 60 on the USNWR list which I suppose are also a waste of time and money, but there she is, working diligently toward her degree anyway. [/quote]

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