<p>Pizzagirl wrote: “And frankly, I see their point – what IS more important, getting Smarty McSmartpants into MIT for engineering when it’s not the end of the world if he goes to U of Illinois’ well-ranked engineering program (and the McSmartpants have to like that it’s cheaper too!), or getting Suzy McMiddleClass’s parents to come up with a way to get her to Northern Illinois University vs community college? For every Smarty McSmartpants, they have 25 Suzy McMiddleClasses.”</p>
<p>Yours must be a good public school. At our school the goal sometimes appears to be pursuading Suzy McMiddleClass’s parents that they’ll save a lot of money if they send their kids to the local CC. That is, when they are not suggesting that the McSmartPants parents to cough up money to pay for “college-in-the-high school” courses so their progeny can graduate in 2 1/2 years.</p>