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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]100 years ago, 50 years ago, ivies are expensive, even MC may not be able to afford it.  And ivies mostly get their students from boarding schools and private schools.  So yeah at that time it’s reserved to rich privileged families.

If we go back to those times, restrict the seats from the commons, there would never be a rat race.  I mean, it only becomes a rat race when the commons think they are attainable to them.[/quote]

Not artfully put, but true. One of the top schools for churning out Nobel winners is City College of NY. It’s where children of poor immigrants in NY went, mostly Jewish. These were smart kids who were driven to improve their family’s lot in life, and many did just that.

Between this thread and the Harvard kids one, it’s made me realize that it’s too bad that the prestige of places like CCNY have fallen. They are perfect for super smart, driven kids who need or should stay close to home and are not interested in the typical college experience but want to just hunker down and get a degree. That’s not to say they are not still good options, just that everyone is falling all over themselves to get into a top 10/20/25 school when those places might not serve the ancillary needs (cost, distance from home, overall culture) that a commuter school does.[/quote]

Stuy and Bronx Sci kids all going off to Hunter and Stony Brook in droves. Macaulay and Sophie Davis highly HIGHLY respected here in nyc. It maybe doesn't have a national name, but neither did City College at the time. But OP has no interest in sending her kid to Hunter. [/quote]

Hunter had a great name when I went to SUNY long ago. It was also a school that only locals attended.[/quote]

But that’s sort of my point. Many kids probably should stay close to home for all sorts of reasons. There shouldn’t be such a stigma against going to a commuter school. Not all students should live away and try to fit into a campus life that is not their cup of tea.[/quote]

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