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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Oxford is not an honors program

2. Honors programs at publics accept many students from the bottom half of our private. They are not elite. These students are 1300-1350s kids at 1200s schools. If you want elite students with elite opportunities available to all, go to an elite college: a private T15[/quote]

My kid is in honors program at low ranked big state university ("1200 school"). My kid and nearly all of their friends are insanely smart -- 1500++ SAT, 35+ ACT, NMF, tons of APs with 5s on all....
All top tier elite students (most, if not all, also admitted to T15s). There are cohorts of "elite" students at state schools. [b]Not everyone wants to go to a private T15.[/b][/quote]

I hear you!!  I wish more posters understood this.  [/quote]

Yes. Just statistically, large flagships have vast numbers of high scorers equal in number to many small LACs. It is just tougher -for some- to find their cohort in these school of tens of thousands.

You will find academic peers. Many don’t have the money of LAC students, so if that’s the social group you seek, you have to look harder, too.

Raw brain power is present, and sometimes fresher and more interesting, bc they haven’t been spit out of the same independent school mill.

The resources for undergraduates are not the same as at LACs. A good, well-funded honors college can fill that gap somewhat with dinners with profs, exciting speakers, better advising, international trips, etc. usually they still have fewer resources.[/quote]

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