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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 4746976, member: 1646"] What I think I hate the most is the feeder school situation. I have a friend whose son just graduated from a prestigious high school. He shared the college process with me. They have two "guidance counselors." One is just to get them into college and it starts by end of sophomore year. The school has been complaining that they aren't getting as many kids into some of the elite schools anymore, so now they are trying to steer kids to only applying to a couple top schools. Basically, telling kids not to apply to Notre Dame if they are applying to Georgetown so they don't take an ND spot for another classmate. The parents are telling them to pound sand. I'm in a strong school district. You can see the respect for the school from certain schools compared to the other disdain from others. I think in 20 years, the school has gotten one kid accepted to Vandy. But that friend above's school puts like 5 per year there. I have a friend who is livid about the huge drop his freshman kid's school took. We all told him that the school quality didn't change and the kid is still at a school with lots of advantages. He's convinced this will hurt his kid when trying to get a job and US News should have to announce changes five years in advance. Craziness. I do think, however, that there is a difference between getting the best education vs. the best return on investment or the best well rounded socio economic experience. I'm still not sure who pressured US News into making the changes. They should only care about eyeballs/advertising. The top schools started to bail (or threaten to bail) on their graduate ratings. Maybe this is a case of "careful what you wish for?" The Ivies came out fine, but almost all other prestigious schools dropped. [/QUOTE]

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