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Can we get a rimshot? Ha!</p>
<p>LOL, “Apparently few people in China have heard of Rice”.</p>
<p>^ Yea, it’s Rice. Apparently few people in China have heard of Rice, so it couldn’t be worth it.</p>
<p>ROFLMAO</p>
<p>Yeah, and the people in France have never heard of Notre Dame. ;)</p>
<p>Anyway…are you in Texas? Or are you in China? If you’re in the US, then who gives a rat’s patootie about what people in China know or don’t know? Won’t your son be WORKING here??? Or is this all about bragging rights to the relatives back home???</p>
<p>Most people in the US have NO IDEA which schools in China are any good. So what?</p>
<p>^ We are in Texas, but sometimes my W’s mind is still in China. My S and I are totally on the same page, but W is reading a different book.</p>
<p>You might want to show her what it takes to get into Rice these days. That might put it into some perspective.</p>
<p>Re: post no. 31</p>
<p>I get the impression the problem is that the OP fears the ds will believe the ill-informed dh.</p>
<p>To Youdon’tsay: So what’s the downside? OP’s D will be disappointed - as are the other 9/10th of the applicants. The only thing that matters is that the matches and the safeties be attractive and affordable. If dh is proven wrong, it’s self-correcting so long a D had her other ducks lined up.</p>
<p>The possible downside is if the student is overconfident about the reach-for-everyone schools, there may not be as much thought given to selecting desirable and affordable less selective schools, possibly resulting in not getting into any desirable and affordable school in April.</p>
<p>^^^^ That.</p>
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Your wife is in for a huge disappointment. Top 1% still get rejected from Harvard. Many valedictorians are rejected from Harvard.</p>
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It shouldn’t be any problem because your S will likely not be admitted to any of them in which case his only option will be someplace else whether your W likes that or not. Reality will hit home. </p>
<p>Of course, maybe your S will actually be accepted to one or more of the above, which is great as long as he wants to go to one and you can afford it, but it’d be foolish for people to not consider all of them as reaches regardless of the student’s credentials.</p>
<p>As long as your W doesn’t actually disallow your S to apply to some true matches and safeties it s/b fine and your W’s lack of knowledge of the college system won’t have an impact.</p>
<p>Thanks for speaking up for the other half - the problem of ignorance of colleges doesn’t lie solely with husbands in particular - it lies with people who have a poor understanding of the current admissions realities today.</p>
<p>^ Actually, right now he’d prefer Rice to HYPSM. The easy part would be getting rejected from any of HYPSM he would apply to* (which will probably be only SM as a compromise with W), the next more difficult part would be getting accepted to Rice, and the most difficult part would be convincing his tiger mom to let him go to Rice if he were accepted.</p>
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<li> I don’t mean to imply that he would sabotage his own applications.</li>
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<p>You better try to get the best applications together and apply to all of them, including HY …, Rice and some other safety. Maybe he will get accepted somewhere. It’s not a sure bet to get in Rice.</p>
<p>^ UT-Austin is his safety and his mom is fine with that as it would keep him close to home.</p>
<p>GladGrad, I think we can agree the less-informed half is the half not on cc! ;)</p>
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Definitely.</p>
<p>Hows about you pair up the OP’s DH with your DW, austinareadad? They could look at colleges of their choosing for… someone else :)</p>
<p>** full disclosure-- one of my s’s graduated from Rice. WONDERFUL WONDERFUL school. He looked at several of the HYPSM schools, and when he saw Rice, knew instantly that that was “it”. He was right.</p>
<p>^ Good idea! </p>
<p>I agree that Rice is a great school, and I hope that somehow it comes to be the school for my S.</p>
<p>Also, I’d like to apologize for seemingly hijacking the OP’s thread. I just meant to throw in my situation as something related and not to have so much influence on the direction of the discussion.</p>