@ccconfid, you need to start your own thread when you have an unrelated question.
@MurphyBrown, that is baloney that it is beneath valedictorian/35 type students to go to the same school their classmates end up at. Likely they will be going for a much cheaper price, which could be the smartest move for them. And odds are that their academic skills will help them be near the top of their college class, which has obvious benefits. Believe it or not, my kid with a 2380 SAT and across the board 800s on subject tests didn’t attend the highest ranked schools she got into. She preferred a school that was a great fit instead – imagine that.