Are all Big 3 alumni this insufferable?

[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.

Two tour guides mentioned legacy
Princeton in a very cringy way (both parents & grandparents )
UCLA in a far more natural way (also both parents)

[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.

+100

She’s basically providing further evidence that legacy students are less intelligent than the average student.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is my sentiments as well and i’m a black woman.

I love her level of self awareness and introspection.

I think that the criticism is concerned with her obsession with self and the lack of depth and the lack of sensitivity in her written thoughts. Even though just age 18 or 19, her reflections are a bit too shallow.

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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.

I don't understand what is absurd about that quote. It seems accurate to me.

There are a lot of accurate things that are better left unsaid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea this is really, really embarrassing and does not reflect well on her, her family or NCS at all. I mean, wow. She even felt compelled to let the readers know that she got into Yale.

Truly cringeworthy. I can’t believe the paper even publishes such drivel.

Who turns down Yale? And who could even verify she’s telling the truth? It’s not like Yale has public records of who got it and who didn’t. I always assume people are lying when they name drop like this.

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So presumably she applied early to Dartmouth? Binding? Then how and when did she apply to Yale? Or did she apply to Yale early binding and then her parents got her into Dartmouth in January? If she’s telling the truth, it infers she knew she was a 100% lock shoo-in for Dartmouth, which allowed her to game admissions. What a victim.

[Anonymous]

Her article annoyed me because it was so self indulgent. Complete lack of perspective.
You picked Dartmouth because of legacy. I have no issue with that.
But now you are complaining that you cannot be your own person.
Shut up. No one forced you to go there.
Or if you actually are unhappy, go ahead and transfer. Either way stop whining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So presumably she applied early to Dartmouth? Binding? Then how and when did she apply to Yale? Or did she apply to Yale early binding and then her parents got her into Dartmouth in January? If she’s telling the truth, it infers she knew she was a 100% lock shoo-in for Dartmouth, which allowed her to game admissions. What a victim.

What deserves an eye roll is your endless stream of speculation and ignorance. Applied SCEA to Yale and RD to Dartmouth. It’s not that difficult to understand.

[Anonymous]

Would be easier to understand if the nsc parents on this thread hadn’t already said no one got into take from that class

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would be easier to understand if the nsc parents on this thread hadn’t already said no one got into take from that class

Like we know these posters are NCS parents. Or that they actually know what they’re talking about other than, you know, the person who is writing about herself.

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She technically doesn’t say she got in - it’s artfully worded. So I am taking the girls the side of that bet.
Few people turn down Yale for Dartmouth.
Moreover if she got into another ivy with lower admission rate l, I doubt she’d have such angst re whether she deserved to be admitted.

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Anonymous wrote:Yea this is really, really embarrassing and does not reflect well on her, her family or NCS at all. I mean, wow. She even felt compelled to let the readers know that she got into Yale.

Truly cringeworthy. I can’t believe the paper even publishes such drivel.

Who turns down Yale? And who could even verify she’s telling the truth? It’s not like Yale has public records of who got it and who didn’t. I always assume people are lying when they name drop like this.

She didn't get in to Yale. The posts keep getting deleted but she used restrictive early action to Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So presumably she applied early to Dartmouth? Binding? Then how and when did she apply to Yale? Or did she apply to Yale early binding and then her parents got her into Dartmouth in January? If she’s telling the truth, it infers she knew she was a 100% lock shoo-in for Dartmouth, which allowed her to game admissions. What a victim.

She was admitted to Dartmouth in Dec 2021.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So presumably she applied early to Dartmouth? Binding? Then how and when did she apply to Yale? Or did she apply to Yale early binding and then her parents got her into Dartmouth in January? If she’s telling the truth, it infers she knew she was a 100% lock shoo-in for Dartmouth, which allowed her to game admissions. What a victim.

What deserves an eye roll is your endless stream of speculation and ignorance. Applied SCEA to Yale and RD to Dartmouth. It’s not that difficult to understand.

Except she made her ED acceptance known at the time. The article is disingenuous and misleading. I agree with others that this is a young person with a lot to learn. In the 1st article she could have provided reference to the recent announcement to eliminate loans from financial aid.

https://financialaid.dartmouth.edu/faqs/dartmouth-no-loan-initiative-faqs

Instead she writes about being part of an exclusive club within a club and ends the article stating the college is “taking the path of least resistance.” Perhaps she regrets taking the path of least resistance by applying ED. If that was what she was trying to convey in the 2nd article it fell short.

[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.

Same. And I was an Ivy tour guide for years.