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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]guys, your kids are not going to get into an Ivy.  The competition is just to fierce.  But this means that the quality of students at big state us and even second tier big state us will go up exponentially, which will make those school degrees more valuable (though they are just fine now - and I say this as someone who gradated from a  big state southern U of middling distinction in 2007 and who has a thriving career along with my husband who has a degree he got in 2003 from the same school - and he just has a BA.  We live in a Brookland and together make just over 200,000 in careers we love.  He is in science, btw).

The obsession with great school names is just bizarre.  About 1/2 the people we meet in DC went to great schools and about 1/2 went to middling schools (Texas A&M, University of Kentucky).  All are doing absolutely fine.[/quote]

People do not spout ivy numbers because they want their own kids to go an ivy school -- the point is that Ivy schools are highly selective - many high schools in the country have never sent a single graduate to an Ivy school ever. So when people say Wilson is academically unacceptable for their children, the counter-point being made here is simply that you cannot say the school is academically unacceptable for your child when some of the most selective colleges and universities in the country are admitting students from this school. If Wilson is good enough for Harvard ...[/quote]

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