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<p>That would be the death of internet forums!</p>
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<p>Point made - thank you, PG!</p>
<p>Stealing from the other thread on this topic because your thread died? Why not simply post the snarky comment over there in that one, where they came from? This thread was appropriately dead and buried.</p>
<p>Why not read this one, by the same name? Much more active over there <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1391516-ten-reasons-ignore-u-s-news-rankings.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1391516-ten-reasons-ignore-u-s-news-rankings.html</a> On second thought… never mind.</p>
<p>annasdad, supremely out of context because I also say I’m not one of those people who agonizes over 9 and 17, or thinks that there’s a bright line between rank x and rank x+1. But nice try, anyway.</p>
<p>I bet there’s a lot of focus on rankings at IMSA - certainly more than at my kids’ public school, where most kids either go on to the comm college or an Illinois state school and don’t pay one iota of attention to USNWR - and that must really rankle.</p>
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<p>No, Swarthmore doesn’t have the same cachet with the man in the street that Harvard does. So what, though? I’d rather be in the inside with the cognoscenti, myself.</p>
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<p>And where does this assumption come from? Annasdad is your only source of IMSA information, and if I remember correctly, he usually says there is no significant difference in education at elite schools versus state flagships.</p>
<p>My daughter considered IMSA, so I am familiar with it, thank you.</p>
<p>IMSA itself boasts on their website: *“The Wall Street Journal and Worth Magazine named IMSA among the top public college prep programs in the nation for placing graduates in Ivy League and highly selective universities.” * Given their facilities and the caliber of the students they enroll - which are quite impressive - it is a reasonable assumption that a not-insignificant portion of IMSA parents in general look to get their children into a high-tier college. (And why shouldn’t they? They’ve got some smart kids, as evidenced by their other accomplishments, such as Intel winners.)</p>
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<p>3-My kid has no chance of getting into a high ranked one.</p>
<p>Yes, Pizzagirl daughter allegedly “considered” IMSA, so that makes her a fountain of expert-level knowledge about what how IMSA parents and students evaluate colleges. How predictable. </p>
<p>At IMSA, like at any high school with high-achieving kids, when it comes to considering colleges, some parents are blinded by prestige, and some are not. I knew quite a few on both sides of that divide. I have no doubt where Pizzagirl would have come down on that had her daughter been able to get in.</p>
<p>Oh, and for some data - not that Pizzagirl has ever shown any interest in basing her opinions on that - 30 percent of the class if 2012 are going to “Illinois state schools.”</p>
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<p>annasdad- I honestly think that of anyone who has posted on this forum as long as I’ve been here, YOU are the person the most obsessed with prestige! You are absolutely beside yourself that some people consider some schools better than others for our particular kids. And- guess what else? Some of our kids were able to gain admission to these schools!</p>
<p>How dare you, Annasdad. My D did consider IMSA. As a family, we decided that a sleep away high school was not what we wanted (no aspersions cast on anyone who des, just not for us). And how dare you talk about me as “blinded by prestige.” did you even follow the lists of schools my kids were looking at? They were hardly all the typical CC-drool over schools. You’re completely out of line.</p>