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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people on this forum really think their snowflakes can’t be intellectually stimulated at “non-selective” schools??

First of all - there will be plenty of smart kids basically anywhere and people can find their tribe.  Second of all - what about being able to function in the real world, in the workplace where people have all different strengths and skills.  Sometimes an average student can be brilliant socially or politically or just “get” geospatial thinking.  It would be a sad world if only good test takers prevailed across the board.

I hope my kid finds the school that meets their needs academically, [b]socially and culturally and I don’t need artificial selectivity metrics to tell me what that is[/b].[/quote]

This is so important.  I went to a highly selective school, think along the lines of MIT, a very long time ago and was miserable.  I can only admit this here but it was filled with grinder nerds that I didn’t fit in with.  For us, we are definitely trying to find a good fit socially as well as academically for our kids.   [/quote]

Most likely your SES situation was better those grinders. Typically there is an economic reason why some are grinders[/quote]

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