Would you send your kid to a 2nd tier college?

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<p>Agentninetynine,You may or may not see backward walking tour guides! Here’s an article about it from the NY Times. Have fun on your tours.
[Colleges</a> Seek to Remake the Campus Tour - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/education/19college.html]Colleges”>Colleges Seek to Remake the Campus Tour - The New York Times)</p>

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<p>Would you send your kid to a 2nd tier college? </p>

<p>Will many of us have a choice?</p>

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<pre><code> my D had similar choices as yours, admitted to both W&M and UVA, Monroe/Echols, and as you say, there’s not a bad choice to be made, there. But after a half-hour at UVA, she realized it wasn’t for her - she goes there now in grad school, and her opinion is unchanged about the undergrad environment there - she says living there now has made her appreciate W&M all the more.
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<p>For others, they have precisely the opposite experience, and UVA is the far better choice - as you already know, it’s about personality and fit, really, you’re not giving up anything academically either way.</p>

<p>Two great choices, two very different environments - and most people have a decided inclination for one or the other. </p>

<p>So, not telling you anything you don’t know - just want to assure you that whatever choice she makes will almost certainly be the “right” choice.</p>