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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not just IVY I know of at least 2 people who made what others may consider unpopular decisions on in-state colleges.

One chose VT over UVA for a humanities field. (People thought  she was 'crazy"). But one parent and sibling went to VT (Dad went to Radford). And she had been to all of the games and had always dreamed of being a hokie.

Also another chose JMU over VT for Computer Science (they were admitted into VT engineering for CS too.). I think that was because of distance to home and they were admitted to JMU honors.[/quote]

Glad we added these two isolated cases to the data set![/quote]

:roll: 
While these are anecdotes, that doesn't mean they don't reflect a thing that happens.
Some people on this board want everything about the college process to all break down to a set of numerical computations, in which a certain formula always produces the same outcome, and that's just not how it works. 
As has been discussed ad nauseam, that's not how admissions offices make their decisions. Certainly test scores, GPAs are factors, but over and over again two students with the same stats and the same demographics will receive two different decisions from the same college.
Since we know this is the case, why is it so hard to accept that the same phenomenon also happens on the student side, when they are evaluating their options and deciding where to go? [/quote]

+1   And this "which would you choose" decision doesn't even include those who chose not to apply to the highly selective schools even if their grades/SAT/ECs are competitive because they know going in they can't afford it.  DS could have applied to Princeton, MIT etc. (wants to study math) to try to get the trophy of an admission but he knew there was no way we could afford it and wouldn't go into debt for it even if he somehow managed to get admitted.  So he didn't waste his time and focused on match/safety schools that either we could afford sticker price (in-state publics including VT) or he was competitive for good merit aid.  I don't think that's an usual decision for donut-hole families who understand the merit aid game.[/quote]

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