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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As others have said, HS and early education years are not just to get into a prestigious university. They are for, you know, actual learning. If she has a solid educational foundation, she will do well anywhere.

You need to get off the prestige high-horse and realize that the learning is the goal. If she's after prestige only, she is destined to fail. And I'd say that her parents have set her up for that.

We are paying for private for our DD. Our goal is to have her learn how to learn, ask questions, challenge herself, and enjoy her education. I hope that she ends up at a public university thereafter though she'll do great wherever she goes.

Give your kids challenges in their lives, folks. They'll be better for it. The constant prestige spoon-feeding is doing terrible things to their generation. [/quote]

The whole ecosystem around the big 3/5/whatever is set up to encourage it from the time the application process begins in 8th. The reality is that there are so many students with similar profiles that the ivies, T10, highly selective SLACs... could fill their classes several times over with similar results. [/quote]

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