This is all quite reminiscent of the Private School forum where many DCUM posters attack highly selective schools or engage in concern trolling with the agenda of dissuading others from applying to them (or accepting offers once March rolls around). |
by the school. Some elite schools treat their kids as "too big to fail", and don't want to impact their student body average GPA, so they let them withdraw up to the lat week before finals, whereas in big state schools, you can't withdraw that close to finals, and you just take the F or D or whatever, and make it up in the summer. And big state schools don't hold your hand and treat you like you're "special". |
? Is Nate Silver a dcum poster with kids ready to go to college? |
Not Nate Silver, but the posters agreeing with him. |
Hard to not agree with some of what he wrote. Some of these elite colleges have taken an image hit, like Harvard, and their DEI admissions policies. Notice how more and more elite schools are going back to test required. |
+1 OP here. The Ivy grads we have interviewed definitely came across like they had been told they were god's gift to the world. Yet they are applying for jobs with a steep learning curve. Nobody wants to hire someone that doesn't think they have anything to learn, or who will assume they are smarter than anyone who went to a state school. |
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Nate Silver has a lot of opinions. This is one of them. |
Or go to schools with tiny class sizes taught by adjuncts who are also teaching at the cc down the road. |
Such an image hit that most of them keeping getting more applicants each year. |
Nate Silver 😂🤣 He can not add he’s an idiot |
I guess your kid doesn’t attend a state school. Not our experience at all. |
I mean, you're all arguing about NOTHING. Because precious few of your kids are getting into the Ivies or assimilated. There aren't enough seats! So you'll just have to be happy with all the decent schools your kids go to. Win-win. |
Thanks for your comment. This is helpful (not OP, but someone whose kid goes to a great LAC, having been rejected by their top choice Ivy). |
I deeply pity your kids. |