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Anonymous wrote:I was talking to some old college friends who are now in the Bay Area and they’re on another level it seems. Many of them are pushing their kids pretty hard to get Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. Just goes to show it’s all relative

Troll.

No one outside the DMV area considers Duke in this group. Bay area people don't.

I live in California now and you’re wrong, Duke and Columbia are both very desirable at top high schools here. HPSM are not the only schools people are looking at because they know odds are pretty low they’ll snag one.

+1 it’s weird to see some parents on here in complete denial. I know a kid from Cali who turned down 4 ivies for Duke all regular pay. I’ve also known a top ISEF winner choose Columbia over Yale and a dual degree at Penn all regular pay. If a school is T10 smart people will be interested, especially considering Duke and Columbia have been T10 for 20+ years now.

This all makes sense. Duke is literally the best school in the bottom half of the country so they're bound to get top talent from all over. And Columbia is the best school in the largest commercial hub in the country so they're bound to get top talent from all over. I do wonder if Columbia being outside of the T10 for the past 2 years will have some minor effects, especially if they don't climb back up.

It's a rich people + "intellectual" people + high potential dc thing.

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I've always supposed it's a direct reflection of cost of living. Wealthy, educated parents see how expensive it is to raise a kid in a very high COL location, and get worried their kid won't be able to replicate the same success unless they have a particular brand name on their diploma.

It’s also that majority of the wealthy educated parents come from a small subset of schools, so they look at themselves and their friends and think it’s a necessary condition.

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Anonymous wrote:I was talking to some old college friends who are now in the Bay Area and they’re on another level it seems. Many of them are pushing their kids pretty hard to get Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. Just goes to show it’s all relative

Troll.

No one outside the DMV area considers Duke in this group. Bay area people don't.

I live in California now and you’re wrong, Duke and Columbia are both very desirable at top high schools here. HPSM are not the only schools people are looking at because they know odds are pretty low they’ll snag one.

+1 it’s weird to see some parents on here in complete denial. I know a kid from Cali who turned down 4 ivies for Duke all regular pay. I’ve also known a top ISEF winner choose Columbia over Yale and a dual degree at Penn all regular pay. If a school is T10 smart people will be interested, especially considering Duke and Columbia have been T10 for 20+ years now.

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Anonymous wrote:IME it is the tri-state, DMV, and Bay Area.

We’ve got the most highly educated population in the country in some of our neighborhoods. There are fewer kids here, but not less pressure. I do not believe those statistics.

The neighborhoods that are obsessed with state schools?

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Anonymous wrote:DMV comes in below NY, CT, NJ, CA, and MA.

It’s only a small % of parents here.

agree. my order having lived in most of these:

NYC
Bay Area
NY-area
MA and Los Angeleis
DMV

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Anonymous wrote:IME it is the tri-state, DMV, and Bay Area.

We’ve got the most highly educated population in the country in some of our neighborhoods. There are fewer kids here, but not less pressure. I do not believe those statistics.

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Anonymous wrote:I was talking to some old college friends who are now in the Bay Area and they’re on another level it seems. Many of them are pushing their kids pretty hard to get Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. Just goes to show it’s all relative

Troll.

No one outside the DMV area considers Duke in this group. Bay area people don't.

Thank you for saying this. I mentioned in another thread that the Californians I grew up with were not aware of Duke and was told I was nuts.

Although there are tons of transplants out there now. My Maryland-born cousin went out to CA and sold an app and made what seemed like a big payoff to folks back home. I told them it was downpayment money for a three bedroom ranch house. 😀

CA kids of the 1990s are not the same as today. Duke is very hot

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Anonymous wrote:I was talking to some old college friends who are now in the Bay Area and they’re on another level it seems. Many of them are pushing their kids pretty hard to get Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. Just goes to show it’s all relative

Troll.

No one outside the DMV area considers Duke in this group. Bay area people don't.

I live in California now and you’re wrong, Duke and Columbia are both very desirable at top high schools here. HPSM are not the only schools people are looking at because they know odds are pretty low they’ll snag one.

Anonymous wrote:DMV comes in below NY, CT, NJ, CA, and MA.

It’s only a small % of parents here.

agree. my order having lived in most of these:

NYC
Bay Area
NY-area
MA and Los Angeleis
DMV

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Anonymous wrote:I was talking to some old college friends who are now in the Bay Area and they’re on another level it seems. Many of them are pushing their kids pretty hard to get Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. Just goes to show it’s all relative

Troll.

No one outside the DMV area considers Duke in this group. Bay area people don't.

Wrong - They have started to pay attention to increase their odds of a T10 admission. Same for Vandy.

Duke and Vandy are not considered anywhere near HYPSM by most in the Bay Area, and below Berkeley and Cornell. Duke/Vandy CS and engineering are not considered to be in the same league as Berkeley and Cornell, for example.

Considered better in the South. Vandy is acceptable; Harvard is "that's weird, do they have social skills?" Better off at 'Bama, Ole Miss, Vandy, Duke, UNC, Georgia, Clemson.

People who go to Harvard don't go back to the South.

Anonymous wrote:I was talking to some old college friends who are now in the Bay Area and they’re on another level it seems. Many of them are pushing their kids pretty hard to get Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. Just goes to show it’s all relative

Rich people gonna rich, and Asian people gonna Asian, wherever they are.

You don need to post every tumbleweed that crosses your brain.

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Anonymous wrote:I was talking to some old college friends who are now in the Bay Area and they’re on another level it seems. Many of them are pushing their kids pretty hard to get Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. Just goes to show it’s all relative

Troll.

No one outside the DMV area considers Duke in this group. Bay area people don't.

Wrong - They have started to pay attention to increase their odds of a T10 admission. Same for Vandy.

Duke and Vandy are not considered anywhere near HYPSM by most in the Bay Area, and below Berkeley and Cornell. Duke/Vandy CS and engineering are not considered to be in the same league as Berkeley and Cornell, for example.

Considered better in the South. Vandy is acceptable; Harvard is "that's weird, do they have social skills?" Better off at 'Bama, Ole Miss, Vandy, Duke, UNC, Georgia, Clemson.

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Anonymous wrote:I was talking to some old college friends who are now in the Bay Area and they’re on another level it seems. Many of them are pushing their kids pretty hard to get Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. Just goes to show it’s all relative

Troll.

No one outside the DMV area considers Duke in this group. Bay area people don't.

Duke is like a T10 school. So then they only care about like 5 schools??

Anonymous wrote:What about Orange county / newport beach?

Del Mar area as well