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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA 
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What?! Everyone trashes NYU[/quote]

Weird, right?

NYU is obviously a great school.  The students are obviously super qualified.

I can only offer a theory.  One I hadn't really thought about before this thread.

In the years my kids have been applying to colleges, only once did I encounter a parent obnoxious and ill-informed enough to say "my kid's college is better than yours."  Their kid was going to NYU, mine to a top 10 LAC, for whatever that's worth.

Rankings are problematic, even within an institutional category.  At best, they can give you a sense of what might be more likely to be the "better" school for a typical qualified student.  But hopefully we have all taken the time to know our kids well night not to push them one way or another based on that's best for a "typical" student.

NYU is clearly a fantastic school for some students.  Maybe even the best school, for them.

But some colleges that try to out-advertise others are perhaps just a little more prone to [b]attracting students whose parents some of us might find irksome.[/b]

To be fair, my sample size is minuscule!  One parent!  That's why I previously gave this no thought.  But maybe others have had similar experiences with ridiculous parents from schools oft cited on this thread.

It's a shame, really.  That kind of behavior ultimately detracts from their child's achievements.  For some students, NYU is ideal.  Same with UVA.  Same with every other school mentioned in the thread.

IMO, it's insecure parents who are the problem.  Not the schools.  But maybe some schools invite this by over-marketing themselves, prioritizing low admit rates over applicant fit?

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Perfectly describes UVA parents.[/quote]

Ah, so you can generalize an entire population of more than 25,000 people? Good to know.

- someone whose kids don’t go to UVA but who thinks this is a ridiculous comment written by someone whose kids didn’t get into UVA[/quote]

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