Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because a lot of moms here want to be cool enough to be Needham or even Wellesley Moms, but instead, they reside on swamplands.

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Boston mom here. Dcum are the wannabes

And yet here you are…on DCUM.

I think there are people, like myself, that wouldn’t mind living in NYC. But it’s laughable to think anyone here covets Boston. Very few people here even think about NE - never mind want to live there. But this provincial thinking is common there; I was the same until I left NE and went to college in the South.

I would never consider living in Boston and I own a summer home in MA and don’t even like DC that much…

But to get back on topic, New England has 1/2 the ivies and more than 1/2 of the top liberal arts schools. It’s just a fact that New England private colleges are some of the best and are discussed on a board full of wealthy people.

Anonymous wrote:people here seem a little peeved to learn that there are a dozen private schools in nyc and plenty elsewhere with better placement than the best private school here.

I enjoy that tension tbh

Well, yea, I like that too. And I'm from the DMV. The local private school parents are the worst. Love watching them squirm,

Anonymous wrote:OP, I definitely get where you're coming from. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a Berkeley alum, so every time someone mentions my alma mater on here, it is resoundingly negative; even though, they somehow believe that these large class issues disappear for UVA and other public institutions.

I've also had the humorous experience of being yelled at on this thread that a certain tiny Liberal arts college has better research access than Caltech. If there were better forums for California parents, I'd honestly get on them even though I live in the DMV, because the takes on Californian institutions are so bizarrely wrong here.

I've yet to hear anyone say that a SLAC has better research access than CalTech, which is actually LAC size. But if the comment is about better research access than UCB the answer is most definitely. The typical student at a top LAC will have better research opportunities than the typical UCB undergraduate. AS far as class sizes I would suspect that UVA has the same issues as UCB though not to the same degree.

Anonymous wrote:OP, I definitely get where you're coming from. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a Berkeley alum, so every time someone mentions my alma mater on here, it is resoundingly negative; even though, they somehow believe that these large class issues disappear for UVA and other public institutions.

I've also had the humorous experience of being yelled at on this thread that a certain tiny Liberal arts college has better research access than Caltech. If there were better forums for California parents, I'd honestly get on them even though I live in the DMV, because the takes on Californian institutions are so bizarrely wrong here.

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people here seem a little peeved to learn that there are a dozen private schools in nyc and plenty elsewhere with better placement than the best private school here.

I enjoy that tension tbh

LOL I mean bothers me a lot LESS ha ha

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I definitely get where you're coming from. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a Berkeley alum, so every time someone mentions my alma mater on here, it is resoundingly negative; even though, they somehow believe that these large class issues disappear for UVA and other public institutions.

I've also had the humorous experience of being yelled at on this thread that a certain tiny Liberal arts college has better research access than Caltech. If there were better forums for California parents, I'd honestly get on them even though I live in the DMV, because the takes on Californian institutions are so bizarrely wrong here.

I live in California and I try to be to honest about Cal, it is challenging to go to school there, and wouldn’t have been a preference for my DS. With that said, I consider Cal superior to UVA and a lot of East Coast privates.

Hard to find a reasonable middle ground.

Hard to have your cake and eat it, too: Cal is not good enough for precious, but still better than the schools back east. Umm, no.

Yea, I agree. The NE bias bothers me a lot more than the CA interlopers with no connection to the DMV who come on here and pontificate things like "I consider Cal to be superior to UVA" having zero connection to or knowledge of UVA. This is a DMV website, Go lurk on College Confidential or something.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I definitely get where you're coming from. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a Berkeley alum, so every time someone mentions my alma mater on here, it is resoundingly negative; even though, they somehow believe that these large class issues disappear for UVA and other public institutions.

I've also had the humorous experience of being yelled at on this thread that a certain tiny Liberal arts college has better research access than Caltech. If there were better forums for California parents, I'd honestly get on them even though I live in the DMV, because the takes on Californian institutions are so bizarrely wrong here.

I live in California and I try to be to honest about Cal, it is challenging to go to school there, and wouldn’t have been a preference for my DS. With that said, I consider Cal superior to UVA and a lot of East Coast privates.

Hard to find a reasonable middle ground.

Hard to have your cake and eat it, too: Cal is not good enough for precious, but still better than the schools back east. Umm, no.

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Anonymous wrote:Way too many outsiders have ruined this website.

DC is a transient town. Are you a native Washingtonian yourself? I was, but moved away. There are a lot of us out there.

It doesn't matter that I'm not a native. What matters is that I am HERE, have been for decades, raised my kids HERE (they ARE native) and none of us is going anywhere.

You moved away. That makes me and mine more legit than you.

One more thing. To label DC a "transient town" only means that your classist. DC is full of families that have lived here for generations. Just not your kind, I guess.

1) Lot of good schools in New England.

2) Lot of people here engaged in an endless chase for status and perceived prestige.

Anonymous wrote:OP, I definitely get where you're coming from. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a Berkeley alum, so every time someone mentions my alma mater on here, it is resoundingly negative; even though, they somehow believe that these large class issues disappear for UVA and other public institutions.

I've also had the humorous experience of being yelled at on this thread that a certain tiny Liberal arts college has better research access than Caltech. If there were better forums for California parents, I'd honestly get on them even though I live in the DMV, because the takes on Californian institutions are so bizarrely wrong here.

Get bent. UVA gets more shit on this forum than any other school. You're probably one of those outsiders who says things like "outside of the DMV, UVA is just another state school." Nobody talks that way about Berkeley here at all.

Anonymous wrote:Way too many outsiders have ruined this website.

DC is a transient town. Are you a native Washingtonian yourself? I was, but moved away. There are a lot of us out there.

Anonymous wrote:OP, I definitely get where you're coming from. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a Berkeley alum, so every time someone mentions my alma mater on here, it is resoundingly negative; even though, they somehow believe that these large class issues disappear for UVA and other public institutions.

I've also had the humorous experience of being yelled at on this thread that a certain tiny Liberal arts college has better research access than Caltech. If there were better forums for California parents, I'd honestly get on them even though I live in the DMV, because the takes on Californian institutions are so bizarrely wrong here.

I live in California and I try to be to honest about Cal, it is challenging to go to school there, and wouldn’t have been a preference for my DS. With that said, I consider Cal superior to UVA and a lot of East Coast privates.

Hard to find a reasonable middle ground.

Anonymous wrote:OP, I definitely get where you're coming from. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a Berkeley alum, so every time someone mentions my alma mater on here, it is resoundingly negative; even though, they somehow believe that these large class issues disappear for UVA and other public institutions.

I've also had the humorous experience of being yelled at on this thread that a certain tiny Liberal arts college has better research access than Caltech. If there were better forums for California parents, I'd honestly get on them even though I live in the DMV, because the takes on Californian institutions are so bizarrely wrong here.

The LAC folks are full of this type of hucksterism.

Anonymous wrote:Because a lot of moms here want to be cool enough to be Needham or even Wellesley Moms, but instead, they reside on swamplands.

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Boston mom here. Dcum are the wannabes