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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work at the University of Missouri. Admissions are guaranteed for 24 ACT / 1160 SAT and a 2.0+ GPA. This is the state flagship; other state schools are even easier. It's crazy to me as a native New Yorker that so many locals send their talented, accomplished kids to Mizzou. But then they are having a good time, graduating without debt and still getting into law and med school, so maybe I am the crazy one. Still trying to figure that out.[/quote]

I’ve lived in the Midwest & in the Northeast. Except for a few wealthy suburbs, college aspirations are indeed strikingly different in the Midwest.

After trying to explain the difference many times, the best way I’ve found to sum it up is that most Midwesterners simply don’t view college as a source of prestige. You went to Princeton, great. You went to Eastern Illinois, great. THAT you went to college is far more important than WHERE you went, but neither is directly connected to prestige.

Prestige is more likely linked to what kind of boat you have, if you shot a deer during hunting season, how well your house & yard are maintained, what your golf handicap is, and so on.

Most Midwesterners  know smart & financially stable farmers, tradesmen, and union workers who never went to college at all, so assuming there is a necessary connection between college & brains/wealth seems odd to them. [/quote]

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Me too!  And makes me even more thrilled that my DD is deciding between two Midwestern schools. The way of life there is just so so different. I can’t wait for her to get out of this cesspool people on the race to nowhere.

I went to Michigan (not one of her choices) and the difference in people/attitudes between here and there is stark. Shes gonna love it![/quote]

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