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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a Sidwell parent, but I understand that after 13 years of paying half a million dollars of tuition, parents expect more than settling for a college with greater than 50% acceptance rate. If you ask parents to adjust their expectations, you are basically telling them the money invested has been wasted. Why? Because they could have gone to a 50% acceptance rate college from a public school for free and save the tuition money for college.

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+2 This is an anonymous forum, so I will be honest. I know I will get flamed, but here it is. Big3 parent. I can get excited about Wisconsin or Tulane, but sending my 34 ACT to Delaware or Elon is hard to take. Especially after spending $500k in private school.[/quote]

NP here, in this vein I will add, I was a merit scholarship kid at a [b]regional SLAC [/b]and I transferred because the school offered so few resources and the kids didn’t care about current events, reading or any of the things I cared about.  They just wanted to drink (or the ones who didn’t were so much more socially awkward than I was).  So I want to avoid that for my kid who is definitely smarter than me and even more sophisticated having grown up in DC.  Because transferring, while absolutely the right thing to do, definitely closed off some avenues for me.  I am sure there are great kids at small schools but my research failed me back in the day as I didn’t find them - or at least not enough to stay.  [/quote]

Well, a regional SLAC is usually below what people are talking about here--there are hundreds of small ranked national SLACs before you get to regional SLACs.  If you go to a national SLAC within the top 100 you'll have plenty of good resources and supports. [/quote]

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