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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA haters [/quote]

yeah, i'd say more haters. i live in nyc and there are plenty of folks I know, probably any parent I know, in this last admission cycle who would have been thrilled if their DC had ended up at UVA given the dearth of choices for many after ED1/2. One of DD's BFF's picked it over Harvard. [/quote]

Don't you mean that the entire Ivy admits pool rejected each and every Ivy to go to UVA?  After all it's much better than any other school in the world because TJ sends students there and you need really high grades from VA public schools to get in....[/quote]

No, that's not what I wrote. This last cycle was fairly brutal for some high achieving students. DD mentioned last night that one of her senior friends dinged at 11 schools and now headed to Wisconsin. She would be thrilled to be going to UVA. And yes, one of her friends is headed to UVA. Her parents went to Harvard and, at the end of the day, she decided that she didn't want that for her college experience. Sh*t happens.

FWIW, your shade didn't really fall. Most folks in NYC have no idea what TJ means with their kids enrolled at Stuy, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, LaGuardia, etc and that's just the publics.[/quote]

How does the child feel about Wisconsin? I get that it isn't a "prestige college" but it's a good school, isn't it?  (She asks with trepidation, as that is the school her child has decided to attend . . .)[/quote]

Follow-up-- we are in DC, so we get that DCTAG grant to bring down OSS costs a bit.  He didn't apply to local schools as he wanted some distance.  Wisconsin is a bit more distance than I like, but I'll support his decision.  I guess he can always change his mind and transfer elsewhere.[/quote]

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