Are all Big 3 alumni this insufferable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her writing is very odd to me. I have a 10th grader at NCS and she's a very good writer because she's learned it by trial and fire at NCS. There are kids in her grade who are brilliant writers.

Like or hate NCS, they teach the girls to write

Apparently not all of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that the negative reaction here is way overblown. The essay does give me a touch of the ick, but so do about half the posts on this forum. It really just reads like an earnest journal entry that probably should have stayed in the journal.

Clearly these posters don’t realize a world that they are clearly really not part of. You have to be aware to realize what she’s talking about and I think many are not aware. There is “wealthy” and then there is wealthy combined with elite clubs, summering at the same places, knowing all of the same people at all travel destinations. It can be polarizing even to “wealthy” people. That is what she is talking about. It’s a culture And you can be “rich” technically and still come in to this kind of Uber wealth world and realize wow it’s on a whole different level than you could’ve ever imagined. Clearly you people trashing her are not part of that world so you don’t even know what you’re missing out on.

Yeah - ok - more cringe.

[Anonymous]

Here’s the bottom line: the article was tone deaf and a failed attempt at humor. The author is also a poor writer. I don’t care how old she is or where she went to high school. She’s at Dartmouth, and you’d expect to see better.

If she were my kid, I’d be really embarrassed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Went to an Ivy. Have current kid at an Ivy. What I don’t get? 6 weeks in, everyone knows she’s a legacy? How? Name isn’t recognizable. Seems like she chose to make this known. Whole thing seems odd.

Because some kids realize that name dropping that might go over in DC (in some crowds) doesn't go so well outside of DC.

I've been on tours at Ivy's where the tour guide loves to drop their legacy status like it's a special badge. I always cringe a bit, thinking you just took yourself down a notch with most of your tour participants.

People who are used to being part of special clubs, where announcing "credentials of acceptability" can't help themselves (or are clueless) in real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the bottom line: the article was tone deaf and a failed attempt at humor. The author is also a poor writer. I don’t care how old she is or where she went to high school. She’s at Dartmouth, and you’d expect to see better.

If she were my kid, I’d be really embarrassed.

You sound like a gem of a parent!

[Anonymous]

Not sure who your tour guide was but I went to an Ivy and no one really ever talked about their legacy status- they certainly never bragged about it.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if she is just a product of her time. She grew up in an era of social media, and I think a lot of people her age have not learned the lesson that not everything you feel/think needs to be shared. To me, the part about how she should have gone to Yale but didn't like it as much was really the part that was most painful to read. Hard to believe no one warned her how tone deaf that added detail was.

[Anonymous]

To me, the part about how she should have gone to Yale but didn't like it as much was really the part that was most painful to read. Hard to believe no one warned her how tone deaf that added detail was.

Agree - particularly off since apparently no one at ncs got into Yale last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure who your tour guide was but I went to an Ivy and no one really ever talked about their legacy status- they certainly never bragged about it.

Maybe I’m older but the legacies I knew at my Ivy did subtly brag about it. A multigenerational part of the club if you will…but there’s now much more data available about the admissions boost given to legacies relative to the rest of the population that most kids nowadays know enough not to brag about it…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To me, the part about how she should have gone to Yale but didn't like it as much was really the part that was most painful to read. Hard to believe no one warned her how tone deaf that added detail was.

Agree - particularly off since apparently no one at ncs got into Yale last year.

Wow $40k/year in tuition and legacy status for many of these girls and still no one can get into Yale. The top publics in the DMV fare better….

[Anonymous]

Worse than her essay is the snarky, callous, and cowardly collection of DC snobs piling on her with anonymity because they feel outed. Predictable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worse than her essay is the snarky, callous, and cowardly collection of DC snobs piling on her with anonymity because they feel outed. Predictable.

you want us to throw her a parade? Most teenagers realize that things that get posted on the internet…will be seen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Worse than her essay is the snarky, callous, and cowardly collection of DC snobs piling on her with anonymity because they feel outed. Predictable.

you want us to throw her a parade? Most teenagers realize that things that get posted on the internet…will be seen.

No. I want you to be nicer and less self-centered.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me someone at the paper was more than happy to provide the insufferable author an opportunity to embarrass herself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:An NCS alum now at Dartmouth wrote this woe-is-me op-ed about how being a legacy is sooooo hard:

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/10/i-think-ive-seen-this-film-before

I was planning on having my DD apply to NCS and the other Big 3, but this is making me reconsider. Does the extreme privilege of these environments breed students this insufferable?

OP are you jealous much??? I think you are a low class ass for posting this making fun of a still teen. Please get a life and do the rest of us a favor and do not apply to private. I get what she is saying as I went from public to private and there was a very distinct difference and private opened up an entire new world and places people summered together and same clubs and towns and whatnot. Clearly you don’t get it.

She is a legal adult who was stupid enough to publish this with her name attached. Sorry, but consequences.

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