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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care about the "fit."  If you kid gets into HYPS, you make it "fit." [/quote]

I hope this is a troll post. Clearly you haven't been around families whose kids end up having to drop out or take a leave of absence from an elite school. Each year I learn of several students from our top public HS who did nothing but achieve during their teens and won their spots legitimately at their universities but were unable to handle the pressure/expectations/adjustment. Fortunately, many of these top schools have very liberal leave policies because this is far from uncommon. But it does make you think twice about the knee-jerk impulse to send a kid to the school with the lowest admit rates, the most famous name or the greenest, ivy-covered campus. Fit is essential. I have one friend who toured campuses looking specifically for the "purple hair factor." Her kid needed to see that there were plenty of kids in his vein, not just the ones that appear on the cover of the brochure.[b] My own kid chose a lower-ranked school over many top names because he immediately felt comfortable and liked the vibe at his chosen school[/b]. [/quote]

As a parent, you need to be giving them guidance over the opportunities they will be losing if they choose a lower ranked school.  If not, you are not doing your job as a parent.  I would encourage my Ivy admitted kid to tough it out, because in the end she will be well above and beyond the average kid who ends up a some nameless private SLAC or big state university.  [/quote]

This is your opinion.  It is not a fact.

I don't parent that way, but you do what you believe you need to do.[/quote]

I would fully encourage Pitt or MD over an Ivy mainly because its what we can comfortably pay for.  Your point makes no sense.  My husband went to a no name college and my sister went to an IVY for college and medical school.  My sister has a good stable well paying job... my husband has a better job and makes more.  Ivy's are great, no question but they do not guarantee how you will do as some of it is about life choices.[/quote]

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