Are all Big 3 alumni this insufferable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just read her other essay.

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/10/cradle-to-cap-and-gown-the-prep-school-to-ivy-pipeline

"After attending public school through the eighth grade, I switched to an all-girls private school in Washington, D.C. Going from a class of 500 to a class of 74 was a shock, but the true jolt was adapting to the pure wealth and privilege surrounding me. I consider my family to be very well off, but my peers made me feel like a pauper. Although there are a fair number of students on financial aid at exclusive high schools, the majority of the student body comes from rich, well-connected families."

Absurd. Oblivious and absurd.

"absurd.oblivious & absurd" ABSOLUTELY AGREE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just read her other essay.

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/10/cradle-to-cap-and-gown-the-prep-school-to-ivy-pipeline

"After attending public school through the eighth grade, I switched to an all-girls private school in Washington, D.C. Going from a class of 500 to a class of 74 was a shock, but the true jolt was adapting to the pure wealth and privilege surrounding me. I consider my family to be very well off, but my peers made me feel like a pauper. Although there are a fair number of students on financial aid at exclusive high schools, the majority of the student body comes from rich, well-connected families."

Absurd. Oblivious and absurd.

This is a much more useful essay than the “waaaaah, I’m a legacy” one, IMO. And not at all absurd.

Except you find out how wealthy she is in the legacy essay. Read together, they both come off worse

[Anonymous]

Very tone-deaf.

There are some things that you just cannot complain about publicly. Privately? Sure. I went to an international private school in Paris that had some incredibly wealthy students (private jets, diamonds and furs worn in school, etc). Did that create a divide? Of course. But I'm not going to write an op-ed about it, because I'm not stupid.

[Anonymous]

So cringe and lacking in any self awareness

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oooh you are so scary - what consequences having a bunch of jealous wackos trash her on here? Her writing is excellent I can see why she was admitted to an Ivy and maybe you or your daughter were not and now you find it necessary to trash her on here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It doesn't sound like that world was ever not open to her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oooh you are so scary - what consequences having a bunch of jealous wackos trash her on here? Her writing is excellent I can see why she was admitted to an Ivy and maybe you or your daughter were not and now you find it necessary to trash her on here?

I am not "trashing her." Stop being so sensitive. I am merely predicting that she is going to be extremely embarrassed by this at some point, and unfortunately, on the internet, it will never go away.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I am genuinely stunned by the backlash the OP's posted piece has received. I have a completely opposing view of it. And let me clarify that I VERYYYYYY much dislike NCS, due to the culture. I would not even consider applying for my straight A, high SSAT, URM (uniquely diverse) daughter. Never! With that out of the way...

I fully understood the points being conveyed by the author. The young lady is simply at a crossroads of identity exploration, as many are at that age during freshman year of college. It does not strike me as whining, but rather seeking to carve her own path in life, and one that is valid and appreciated as her own instead of a mere replication of her preceding parents (+other family members). Being in that situation at any university would be difficult, and is only amplified at any Ivy. As much as I detest NCS, and the widely-reported negative experience of URM girls there (in large part, on account of girls like the author), I still appreciate her human experience and the challenges of maturation into adulthood. This seems to be my unpopular opinion (shrugs). Compassion for all human struggles, despite SES/privilege, goes a long way and can extend to struggles starkly different from our own. My immigrant parents would be her parents' literary foil, yet I cannot/wouldn't condemn her for struggling to establish herself as an individual. Just my thoughts.

[Anonymous]

Meh. She’s an immature self absorbed college freshman writing what she knows. Hopefully she will mature out of this self absorption as she grows older.

Are you sure she went to NCS? She’s not a very good writer for NCS.

[Anonymous]

Who believes she got into Yale?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I am genuinely stunned by the backlash the OP's posted piece has received. I have a completely opposing view of it. And let me clarify that I VERYYYYYY much dislike NCS, due to the culture. I would not even consider applying for my straight A, high SSAT, URM (uniquely diverse) daughter. Never! With that out of the way...

I fully understood the points being conveyed by the author. The young lady is simply at a crossroads of identity exploration, as many are at that age during freshman year of college. It does not strike me as whining, but rather seeking to carve her own path in life, and one that is valid and appreciated as her own instead of a mere replication of her preceding parents (+other family members). Being in that situation at any university would be difficult, and is only amplified at any Ivy. As much as I detest NCS, and the widely-reported negative experience of URM girls there (in large part, on account of girls like the author), I still appreciate her human experience and the challenges of maturation into adulthood. This seems to be my unpopular opinion (shrugs). Compassion for all human struggles, despite SES/privilege, goes a long way and can extend to struggles starkly different from our own. My immigrant parents would be her parents' literary foil, yet I cannot/wouldn't condemn her for struggling to establish herself as an individual. Just my thoughts.

You sound weirdly obsessed with NCS and weirdly braggy. My daughter is also OMG a URM and I can’t imagine being this obnoxious. Get over yourself.