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<p>I know :-)</p>
<p>I wasn’t trying to knock any schools or group of schools. </p>
<p>My point was that IMHO it is misguided for a teenager to make an important life decision based largely on rankings and brand names. I knew kids at RPI who seriously felt like they let their parents down because they didn’t get into an Ivy. Their words, not mine. An 18 yr old kid does not need those kind of pressures.</p>
<p>There may be practical benefits to going to an Ivy over a different school - that’s fine. And some of those practical benefits includes reputation and prestige. But in the two weeks I’ve been lurking on CC I’ve see an unhealthy amount of concern over getting into the Ivys, or a top ten USN&WR ranked school. They are all great schools - no doubt about it. But they were not the best fit for me. RPI was.</p>
<p>And IMO fit is what is important, not rankings or names, especially when some kids and parents are running up huge debts to pay for it. I doubt anyone has felt pressured to go to a school because it was in the ECAC.</p>
<p>Peace</p>