Hi,
I have a sort of generic question. I have an older child who got her undergraduate degree from Ohio University (Honors Tutorial Program) with really good statistics (Honors degree, 4.0, lots of research, leadership, 95% MCAT score) and has gone on to apply for an advanced education. She was fortunately accepted at a very fine school (top 15 rank). She has recently been led to believe that she was not even considered for a place at Case Western Reserve, however, because she attended OU which is not a “leading research institution”. She will be fine and is very pleased with where she is headed but my concern, however, is that I have another child who was planning to follow in her footsteps. Because of the excellent opportunities and experiences my eldest had at OU we thought that this would be a great place to also pursue a bachelors. We are a middle class family trying to balance getting a good education with the financial ramifications of doing so. We had previously thought we had made all the right choices with our eldest but now I wonder should we have guided our youngest differently?? How biased are elite schools such as Case against affordable, public schools such as OU?