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Yes, Munchkin, I think the applications thing is geographic and also societal. In the city where I grew up (think largish suburb, but no adjacent urb) we had very good public schools, and everyone who went to college went to one of the Iowa schools, or to one of the good Catholic schools fairly nearby, Notre Dame and Marquette. I bet there weren't 10 applications total out of the 380 in my graduating class to any of the schools listed in this thread. Some certainly would have been able to get into those schools (it wasn't completely uncommon for a kid to have a perfect ACT score), but it just never occurred to most of us. Perfectly acceptable, close by and relatively affordable was pretty much what we thought, and between 3 big state schools, pretty much every major would have been covered.
I think this whole process would be really exciting but soooo anxiety-inducing.
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