Anonymous
Post 07/28/2025 00:30     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Yes. We appreciate you from afar. But don't want to get too close.

And our kids go to school with your kids. So we have to prepare our kids for having their SATs made fun of. Because hardly anyone preps here by DMV standards.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2025 00:25     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Way too many outsiders have ruined this website.


As long as the meanest people are still the locals, do outsiders really matter?


I 100% think the nasty posters are local.


Me too. But I'm here because I miss those nasty gremlins sometimes when I feel stuck in saccharinely sweet land.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2025 00:23     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
I think DC has a lot of people who went to school in New England, or at least outside the mid Atlantic.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2025 00:09     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
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'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.

I've never seen someone so confident about such a wrong opinion. The average LAC student has like 3 labs they can choose between.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2025 00:08     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
The region of the country that has historically had the most focus on education is definitely the Northeast, so that's traditionally where the best schools have been due to longevity and wealth.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2025 00:08     Subject: Re:What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Anonymous wrote:Let's make this productive; What is the standard?

For the World: Oxbridge + HYPSM?
For the US: HYPSM + WASP? Also notice the NE lean.
For US Public: the UCal System?

My standard question is: Is it worth the extra $ vs in-state VA school tuition? For a lot of highly ranked schools the answer leans No! But the kid wants what the kid wants.

For the US, just HYPSM. WASP truly is secondary to 99% of American industry. Most of the benefits of LACs are for the LAC themselves and their alumni, meanwhile, HYPSM change the world.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 23:50     Subject: Re:What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Let's make this productive; What is the standard?

For the World: Oxbridge + HYPSM?
For the US: HYPSM + WASP? Also notice the NE lean.
For US Public: the UCal System?

My standard question is: Is it worth the extra $ vs in-state VA school tuition? For a lot of highly ranked schools the answer leans No! But the kid wants what the kid wants.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 23:20     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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 you’re classist. DC is full of families that have lived here for generations. Just not your kind, I guess.


Hmm, it kind of does matter. DC natives are chill. You sound high strung and combative for no reason.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 23:12     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Anonymous wrote: Just noticed the this forum continuously highly overrates new England colleges compared to every other institution. It doesn't make much sense to me, because Virginia is not in New England, and it just seems strange that so many people find New England the standard. Any thoughts?

Because lets be honest, we, matter more than you.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 23:00     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Boston is a great college city with bright students across numerous colleges. For four years of young adulthood, it's a great option. No one goes to any college thinking they will stay in that area permanently after graduation.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 22:59     Subject: Re:What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
The smartest overall peer groups are in the Northeast + Stanford. That’s why.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 22:53     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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


Me too, I also enjoy that my non-dmv unhooked public kid got into many of the schools drool over. I know that’s bad of me, but people are so nasty here sometimes, and gives me pleasure knowing I didn’t spend money on HS and they got top results.


That's nice, but the thing is we don't want you here either, and it's really weird that you're here -- especially now that your kid is already into college.


I assume they have other kids. I like getting info from all over and all types of schools.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 22:42     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
UVA moms are lumps of foul deformity.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 22:38     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
Anonymous wrote:
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


Me too, I also enjoy that my non-dmv unhooked public kid got into many of the schools drool over. I know that’s bad of me, but people are so nasty here sometimes, and gives me pleasure knowing I didn’t spend money on HS and they got top results.


That's nice, but the thing is we don't want you here either, and it's really weird that you're here -- especially now that your kid is already into college.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2025 22:35     Subject: What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)
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


Me too, I also enjoy that my non-dmv unhooked public kid got into many of the schools drool over. I know that’s bad of me, but people are so nasty here sometimes, and gives me pleasure knowing I didn’t spend money on HS and they got top results.