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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Selectivity &#8800 quality
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How many kids whose dream school is Michigan really will hit the academic (or social or whatever) ceiling at Kansas (admit rate >90%)? 1%? 5%? Surely not 10%. Same is true for Williams rejects at St. Lawrence (admit rate almost 50%) or Whitman (admit rate >50%). Or Vandy rejects at Miami of Ohio (admit rate >90%). Or Carleton rejects at Wooster (admit rate >60%). Etc., etc., etc.

Kids (and especially their parents!) just need to recognize that they can be admitted to a school that will fit them and offer a great education--and get over that it might not appear on the first page of some ridiculous "ranking" list.[/quote]

This post really should be a header on DCUM.

There are very smart and driven kids at every single institution.  My husband and I went to third tier schools. We had MANY very smart and driven peers.  Some went on to top graduate/medical schools, some did not and entered the workforce out of undergrad. 
[b]If you look at them on paper now, they are indistinguishable from our peers/friends who went to top20 schools.  My husband and I (with our third tier degrees) are sitting here this morning in upper NW DC, in a multi-million dollar home with kids at a top DC private.
You can't tell the difference between us and our Ivy league neighbors, friends, fellow school parents and colleagues. [/b]
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+100

Go Hokies :lol: !  My peers and neighbors are all Ivy alums.

We have two million+ homes in NW and no debt and came from MC and lower MC backgrounds.[/quote]

VT isn’t a third tier school. Try Frostburg State, UDC, or Virginia State.

People are so disingenuous when they say “school doesn’t matter” when what they really mean is “it doesn’t matter what top 100 school you go to.” [/quote]

Thank you! I read part of lesshighschoolstress.com on the advice of a poster on DCUM. As far as I could tell, the site says that your kid will be ok if they can "only" go to William and Mary instead of Harvard. Many, many kids don't have a shot at W&M. Or if they have a shot, it is a reach school. Is anyone telling them not to stress? That ODU will serve them just as well? I'm stressed that my A-/B+ student is going to fall far short of her college dreams, which would have been realistic 5 years ago - and no, it doesn't mean she will "only"  go to a Tier 2 school.[/quote]

I think there was somewhere on that site that said the same was true all the way down the spectrum to colleges that admit everyone who applies.[/quote]

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