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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]What does your DD want? Seems more like this is your dream. [/b] I would focus on what she wants once she starts visiting colleges. [/quote]

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"Getting into an Ivy" is never a good goal to have. Goals like "becoming a doctor," "becoming a software engineer," "being a writer," or "working to solve climate change/COVID/HIV" are all good goals to have. But aiming for the Ivies with no idea of what you want post-grad is a recipe for disaster -- and frankly, a recipe I see too many kids in this area fall into. [/quote]

[b]There are just many on DCUM obsessed with getting their child into an Ivy without any thought whatsoever as to the best fit for their child. [/b]They would probably sell their mother to get their child into any Ivy if they could. Its kind of pathetic given that there are so many great colleges that are better than the Ivies depending on the child and what he or she wants to study.[/quote]

Really? I don't see that here. If anything, I see way too much praise for mediocre LACs that have "a way better undergrad experience than a place like Harvard!" [/quote]

Harvard has a horrible undergrad experience. Ask me how I know. [/quote]

I'm not sure I'd say it was "horrible," but I'd agree that you do get a better undergrad experience at pretty much all of its peer schools.[/quote]

Columbia is much worse. [/quote]

Columbia isn't a peer school to Harvard though. [/quote]

This. It's more like an Ivy reject school on the level of, say, Emory or USC. [/quote]

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