<p>Take a few minutes and read:</p>
<p>We accidentally marketed ourselves into a corner
<a href=“http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/10/the-greatest-ma.html[/url]”>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/10/the-greatest-ma.html</a></p>
<p>Not all of us. But American’s as a group are the easiest sold society on earth. Not just college. Our society is driven by conviencing the masses that extravagant is a necessity… and it isn’t a hard sell. cars, homes, coffee, purses, clothes why not designer education as well?</p>
<p>I think an assumption in the article which is one that I see in many posts on CC as well, is that an elite education is sought in order to be more successful in a career, in life, or make more money. But that’s never how I have viewed very selective colleges and is not the way my own kids did either. I don’t think that those who attend elite schools have a ticket to success, money, or happiness, that can’t be achieved at schools tiers down. What matters to me and to my children is to find the schools where they have a good fit and can thrive and for the experience itself. I believe there is more than one excellent fit school per student where they can be happy and have an excellent experience. I don’t think all schools fit a particular student, however. I simply know that my own kids found schools that seem like perfect fits for them and that they are having the epitome of the greatest experience they could have hoped for and more. For that, I feel it has been pricelsss. That’s what picking a school was about for them. I believe they will succeed in their careers and in life but it will be more due to who they are than what school they attended. However, the experiences they are having at their schools, which happen to be very selective ones, are part of their background and growth and play a significant aspect in their lives. I’m grateful that they got to attend schools they wanted to attend and that they adore the experiences they are having and we couldn’t be more pleased. It doesn’t have to do with how much money they’ll make after attending these schools but these schools have been so right for them personally. They have been worth every cent.</p>