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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do know you can transfer - right? I do not feel bad for anyone who just whines and doesn't try to do anything about it. [/quote] If you watch this kid’s YouTube video on where he got in, you will see he is the child of immigrants with a very low income. I don’t think transferring is easy for kids that are on large amounts of financial aid. He was a questbridge finalist or something, so under $65,000 HHI[/quote] Wonder if part of his problem is meeting kids there who have immense family wealth and he’s being eaten up with jealousy. It’s one thing to know that billionaires exist, it’s another to meet one and think “why him and not me?”[/quote] This is probably the most unlikely theory. [/quote] I went to a private high school that had uber-rich kids as well as trailer park kids on scholarships. (Many others, like me, had parents with good incomes e.g. doctors and lawyers but not uber-rich.) You have no idea how much smoldering resentment the poor kids had for the rich kids. You drive a beat up old junker and the other kids have brand new BMWs. [b]The sad part was that the poor kids thought all the rich kids were snobs who looked down on them, when in fact the rich kids didn't think about them at all.[/b][/quote] Reminds me of a line from Gosford Park where the servants are gossiping about their lords upstairs until one of them reminds everyone that while they think a lot about the "haves" upstairs, those folks upstairs couldn't give two farts about their servants downstairs. The have-nots simply don't exist in the minds of those who have.[/quote]
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