Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 16:27     Subject: Re:Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
Me: UW Madison, San Jose State DH: U of New Mexico

DD#1: Emory, DD#2 & 3: still in high school
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 16:23     Subject: Re:Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
Me: Cal Poly SLO +UMD grad school
DH: ODU

Kid: Virginia Tech
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 16:20     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
Anonymous wrote:me: Iowa State, then UVA (law).

DD: very possibly NOVA. It pains me, but I've found some peace about it. She is not me. She has to forge her own path.


Good for you. Make peace. She will figure out a great future.

OP could have alternately titled this thread, "Well-educated parents raise over-achieving kids, am I right?"
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 16:07     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
both parents: Harvard
Kid: UChicago
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 15:36     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
Me & partner: Yale
DD & DS: Northwestern

They've both loved their time at Northwestern and we couldn't be happier!
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 15:17     Subject: Re:Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
DH: UMD-CP
Me: NESCAC SLAC
DCs: Kenyon and Grinnell
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 15:16     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
DH and me: UPenn
DD: Marquette
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 15:15     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
me: Iowa State, then UVA (law).

DD: very possibly NOVA. It pains me, but I've found some peace about it. She is not me. She has to forge her own path.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 15:12     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
We met at UVA and our 3 kids going/gone to UVA also
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 15:04     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
I went to a community college. My daughter dropped out of high school so right now it doesn't look like she's going to college.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 15:01     Subject: Re:Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
Dh and I: SLAC (very small at the time, <1000)
Ds #1 going to large state school.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 14:58     Subject: Re:Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
Parents - St. Lawrence University & University of Rhode Island
Kids - University of Virginia
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 14:57     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
Carnegie Mellon University for undergrad for both of us.
Kid is going to our local community college. (couldn't get in, no way for us to afford it anyway)
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 14:56     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
Me: Northwestern
Kids: Princeton and Bucknell
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2021 14:52     Subject: Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?
My kids are rising 11th grade twins so no college destinations for them yet.