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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it that Harvard is no longer the top choice among students in the DMV?  It seems that every Stanford or Princeton student I know turned down Harvard.  I don’t know a single student who turned down Stanford or Princeton for Harvard.  It seems that Stanford and Princeton are now in a class by themselves among DMV students.  I know it’s splitting hairs because all of the top 5 schools are terrific, but the emergence of Stanford and Princeton as the “top of the top” is a bit surprising.[/quote]

Agree! DC refused to even tour Harvard, although we were in Boston to check out BC and BU. DC is now at another one of those schools that accepts 6-7% of graduates. DC reports that Harvard elicits a lot of eye-rolling from kids in DC's school, who assume (rightly or wrongly) that the kids who do apply to Harvard are status-chasers. Now you could argue that the same kids who instead attend different USNWR top 5 or top 10 schools are status-chasers themselves. I'm just reporting the attitudes that have been reported to me.[/quote]

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