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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
An aggregate brand degradation, no, but that does appear probable down the road. What we're seeing here (and yes, of course YMMV) is a calculation, even by families that can easily afford to pay elite private school tuition, that it's just not worth it.
For some reason, as I said, southern and big state schools seem to be attracting kids I'd otherwise expect to be going Lesser Ivies, Patriot League, etc.
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I live in a bubble, but I'm seeing parents not letting their kids go to southern states due to regressive policies/attitudes. But again, bubble.
But I do agree that there are are many kids who could get into T10 schools who are, for example, going to Illinois (honors program) instead. It's a whole lot cheaper than full pay at Northwestern or U. Chicago.
Edited to add: And I'm still surprised at the amount of east coast families who are willing to send their kids full pay to the LACs. I get that the good LACs apparently carry a lot of water in the northeast, but many people outside of that region have never even heard of them. For example, I had never heard of Williams until about 2 years ago, and it's apparently the top LAC and just as hard to get into as the Ivies.
