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I get the feeling that it is more the younger posters on this board that are pushing the idea that one "needs" to go to ASED ect...
That is definatelly a blanket statement and there are exceptions to every rule, but a look at the last few posts in this thread show that some of what I consider to be the more frequent/responsible adult posters here are happily sending their children to schools other than ASEDPDQECT...
as long as it is a good fit for the child. Count me in this category. (maybe not the frequent/responsible poster part) I hopefully will send my D to a lesser talked about school and couldn't be happier about it. We looked at one of the better known schools and my D wanted nothing to do with it. Could she get in? Her stats are pretty good but who knows.
It is my contention that most of the lesser talked about schools (I hate to even use tier vs tier) are very capable of sending students to Ivy League Schools. They do all the time. It is more a factor of the student than the school. If you took a student from Andover who is going to an Ivy and put him/her in an MAPL school I feel that they would still go to an Ivy.
Having said all of that, I am sure that there are students that want to go to ASED for all of the right reasons and they would thrive there. I just hate to see kids exclude other schools for no better reason than a message board said they should.
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