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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]in terms of education rigor, quality of peer group, faculty, campus experience, research opportunities, employment outcome, networks…but just not as prestigious? We want very high-stat DC to apply to the best quality schools without wasting REA/ED for the brand name [/quote]

It depends on the kid and their interests. There are many schools with more rigor than Harvard or Yale. Generally, all the T6-20 colleges are exceptional and offer very good outcomes to their graduates. I'd focus on fit if you have an extraordinary student. But for intensity of experience, network, and career outcomes, I'd say West Point and Annapolis. For rigor, research opportunities, and campus experience, Rice. For network, probably Notre Dame. For money, Penn. For raw brain power, CalTech. For overall experience, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Brown.[/quote]

Fit is always the question, but perhaps even more so here.  There isn't just one kind of extraordinary kid.   If you dig deeply, there are significant differences in schools that you would superficially think are similar, among the Ivies +, among publics, among urban privates (BU, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech), among SLACs.  I'd start with fit and then decide the boundaries of your universe (Ivies +, Top25, Top SLACs, whatever it is), and then go from there.  Especially important if applying ED, which I assume is the case.[/quote]

This is really spot on. I always scratch my head when people treat HYPSM or the Ivies as interchangeable. They are very different places. [/quote]

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