<p>At my high school in suburban OR, about 10 kids are going to Ivies, 20-30 are going to top 50 universities, about 15 are going to selective LACs, and the rest are going to Pacific Northwest schools (the majority of which are going to OSU or UO). The sheer amount of kids going to these in-state schools has earned them the reputation as the places where the partier and slacker types go which, in turn, turns many more academically inclined kids off of them. However, in reality, there are a lot of intelligent kids who attend solely for financial reasons, but these schools’ reputation as the “fallback” or " second choice" university remains.</p>