“I went to Stanford. I have a niece who is 12. She will be prepped well enough to get in, but I concur with your assessment. You want the best for them, but anymore that might be the road to true unhappiness.”
Paradoxically it may be better to send a kid to a huge place rather than a small university. In the giant state universities you are a number and can avoid some of the evilness or just keep your head down in that class of 600 other freshmen. It isn’t important to believe the evil as long as you know the answer that is expected. You can’t hide in a class of 15.
But for computer science the girl will be almost as good off going to ITT Tech or the University of Phoenix. Computer Science is a trade degree and employers don’t care where the degree comes from so long as you can type the code.
ITT closed this last year.