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Unless your children want to become fluent in the sciences (engineering, medicine) college is to some extent useless. Success in business is more often a case of "who you know" not "what you know". Transferring in later to a name brand school is easier than being accepted right off the bat. With so much pressure put on kids to get things right the first time, all the time does a great disservice to them in the long run. A long term strategic approach to many schools gives your child more options to find out what they (not the parents...) want to do first, then get into the right school that matches their own goals. Most readers may remember how things started Freshman Year at "X" career only to end up somewhere else either later as a Junior, or even post graduate.
 
sgip said:
A long term strategic approach to many schools gives your child more options to find out what they (not the parents...) want to do first, then get into the right school that matches their own goals.
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Completely agree. I tell those within my circle it’s not where you start, but where you finish in terms of college.
Unfortunately, school districts receive extra points for students taking AP classes instead of guaranteed credit at a local community college while in high school. The districts and high schools mislead their students to be graded higher by the California Dashboard, which does not benefit the student.
 
Kangen.Irvine said:
Completely agree. I tell those within my circle it’s not where you start, but where you finish in terms of college.
Unfortunately, school districts receive extra points for students taking AP classes instead of guaranteed credit at a local community college while in high school. The districts and high schools mislead their students to be graded higher by the California Dashboard, which does not benefit the student.
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sgip said:
Unless your children want to become fluent in the sciences (engineering, medicine) college is to some extent useless. Success in business is more often a case of "who you know" not "what you know". Transferring in later to a name brand school is easier than being accepted right off the bat. With so much pressure put on kids to get things right the first time, all the time does a great disservice to them in the long run. A long term strategic approach to many schools gives your child more options to find out what they (not the parents...) want to do first, then get into the right school that matches their own goals. Most readers may remember how things started Freshman Year at "X" career only to end up somewhere else either later as a Junior, or even post graduate.
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You bring up some good points here, as success is not linear in many cases. Often times kids don’t apply themselves mentally and emotionally, nor with discipline, until they find a special interest that lights their fire and curiosity to invigorate self-starting habits, whether it be coding, a medical field, or sport.
There’s also unfortunately a 5 to 10 year career burnout that is not talked enough about to college kids, and I’ve seen it among some friends and family across the board regardless of profession - doctors, nurses, dentists, attorneys, finance professionals at big brokerages, software engineers. Kids need to be taught to be adaptable and that is ok to reinvent yourself at any given point in time.
 
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