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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.

This person’s (and their ilk) perspective ruins most threads on this board. Striver NoVa mom, we get it. There are only 10 schools worth going to over Virginia Tech. Glad you could work your talking points into a discussion about NE bias.

lol - VA Tech booster; I know you "we're ranked #13 in engineering" you know we have UVA and W&M that are known as little ivies. Surprised you didn't include the other two on your list.

The question was "standard". What does this forum consider as a standard or bar? Just saying what DCUM is thinking.

What I think are worth it that can't be found in VA:

Olin - Project based learning and very few tests. For the kid who isn't a test taker.
Williams - Tutorial method not many choices for someone looking for this in the US. I know this is WASP.
Babson - I like the hands on approach to Entrepreneurship.
Harvey Mudd - the engineering culture. It started our for kids who get a 700+ math and < 600 verbal. Now you have to do 700+ in both.

I want to look at Rose-Hulman but cannot find why it's ranked so high? why is it ranked higher than Mudd but close to GMU.'s acceptance rate

GMU another hidden VA Gem - great professors, close to home, and access to year-round internships.

Anonymous wrote:What’s with the hostility to the South? There are opportunities here. Certain pockets of Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami aren’t so different or “under-advantaged” from what’s available to kids in the Northeast. Southern mom here.

There are a handful of schools in the south that are world class: Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Rice, U-texas, WashU, UNC - but after that, it falls off a cliff reputationally, very quickly.

many good points raised but I think it’s because Northeast and New England specifically has so many top SLACs. Nescac lax rosters are chock full of DC and Va kids

Forget about college. Massachusetts perennially tops the list for the best education in the country. Move there for public schools instead of paying for privates in the DMV. Then choose where to go for college.

The colleges in ALL the coastal states from VA to Maine tend to be overrated.

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.

This person’s (and their ilk) perspective ruins most threads on this board. Striver NoVa mom, we get it. There are only 10 schools worth going to over Virginia Tech. Glad you could work your talking points into a discussion about NE bias.

Anonymous wrote:What’s with the hostility to the South? There are opportunities here. Certain pockets of Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami aren’t so different or “under-advantaged” from what’s available to kids in the Northeast. Southern mom here.

Politics
Pace of life (not good for type A)
Heat
Insurance issues (FL for example)

Anonymous wrote:UVA moms are lumps of foul deformity.

…… and Dads?

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.

That's all it is, a concentration of prestige in NE. There are plenty of other prestigious schools, just not concentrated in the a given region to the same extent.

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.

Pp
Yeah sure, very few people here even think about the Northeast... I'll believe that when they stop talking about it

What’s with the hostility to the South? There are opportunities here. Certain pockets of Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami aren’t so different or “under-advantaged” from what’s available to kids in the Northeast. Southern mom here.

Anonymous wrote:

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

Sorry, I think the insiders have ruined this website.

Exactly, the outsiders only found this place because people wrote about how crazy it was elsewhere. Didn’t disappoint. Love it!

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

Sorry, I think the insiders have ruined this website.

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.

As someone from CA, no, UC OOS is not worth it over VA in-state, unless there is a specific fit opportunity that justifies it. Even with that, there is probably a better private alternative despite the higher tuition.

It's because back in the 80s and 90s, most of the people that ended up in DC went to New England schools. So that's their frame of reference and what they value. Meanwhile, reality happened and these people haven't caught up.