<p>Ah, the shame of having a B student!</p>
<p>New Book out today: Early Decision. Read about it here:</p>
<p>But seriously, when supposed "Masters of the Universe" hedge fund managers, etc have a kid who is a B student, where to they send him/her?</p>
<p>To an liberal arts college.</p>
<p>Texas Tech.</p>
<p>Parents who attended privates -usually in the end- choose to send their kids to privates. I would say the same for publics. Parents who attended public universities, may consider privates, but in the end prefer to send their kids to a good state school (though maybe an out-of-state school) Itās a matter of comfort level. Parents value their own experience and wish the same for their children.</p>
<p>Really rich parents and a B average from an American prep school? St. Andrews or the American University of Paris.</p>
<p>Donāt conflate āIvy gradā with wealth or being a hedge fund manager.</p>
<p>snugapug- I disagree. Many families I know- including my own- sent kids to privates when both parents went to state universities. Back in our day, a lot of us didnāt think twice about going to a good, large state university. Doesnāt mean we donāt think something else would be a better fit for a kid.</p>
<p>^ MomofWildChild, maybe. Just not my experience.</p>
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hmm ā¦ maybe, on average, the same places as other parents send their B students.</p>
<p>Lots of āimpressiveā gap years and restructuring the applications and list to try, try again next year.</p>
<p>I think it varies. My best friend (Yale grad) in high schoolās B student daughter went to a SUNY. My brotherās B student went to Sweet Briar, while the A+ student went to UNH (after being rejected from Columbia and Harvard).</p>
<p>There are a lot of mid-tier privates that happily accept B students. Many of the Jesuit schools (not Gtown or BC, but others) accept many B students who thrive there. </p>
<p>what about the CTCL schools?</p>
<p>There are plenty of not-very-academically-selective private colleges that would be glad to have a list price paying student from a wealthy family.</p>
<p>Lots of rich āBā students at NYU and BU also.</p>
<p>GW has a rep for rich kids</p>
<p>[The</a> Education Issue: George Washington University fights its rich-kid reputation](<a href=āhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/11/the-education-issue-george-washington-university-fights-its-rich-kid-reputation/]Theā>http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/11/the-education-issue-george-washington-university-fights-its-rich-kid-reputation/)</p>
<p>But I see this as another NYC-wealthy-parents-gone-amok article. They seem to pop up periodically to remind the plebian class how lucky we are NOT to be rich and living in New York City.</p>
<p>Does the Ivy Grad Parent include those who did grad school at institutions which are basically Ivy Leagues in terms of prestige in the field (eg, Berkeley Law, Cal Tech physics, UCLA Medicine, etc)?</p>
<p>Why not just make Skippy a ādevelopmentā admit.</p>
<p>This is kind of a silly question, but Iāll give a serious answer: parents like this will put a lot of thought into helping their kids find a good fit. Often, it will be an LAC, but there are plenty of other possibilities.</p>
<p>This whole article made me sad. Why must these parents be so caught up in money and prestiege that they canāt even be responsive to the needs of their own child? S1 is happy as a clam at a mid-level regional university that is rarely mentioned on CC. Maybe their kid would be too, but theyāll never know - theyāre too busy trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole at HYPSM.</p>
<p>This is exactly why I find students at āless than selectiveā, but very expensive LACās, to be much more obnoxius that Ivy League students.</p>
<p>The people described in that article sound awful. If those are the values of a lot of students who (with their parentsā help) have used their advantages to get into āeliteā universities, I wouldnāt want to be there. Itās no surprise that the Ivies are the pipeline to Wall Street and political power and that we have serious ethical issues within both.</p>