| This thread is so stupid. Seriously what’s the point of it? |
Seriously, what’s the point of you writing or reading the thread? Empower yourself, and begone. |
One of my former classmates who is arguably one of the most successful in our HS class is the product of a CUNY, they are a New england state senator today. Got kicked out of a private college to begin with, it took them 7 years to work through a traditional bachelor's. CUNYs don't let you coast by on your school name and they teach you to scrap and develop your actual skills Likewise, my SIL had parents who cut off her funding and she had to drop out of private college. When she had to work pay for her own credits she said she studied a lot harder at the local state place (not community but you've never heard of it) and she ultimately landed a prime job at an investment firm because the partner who interviewed her said he was tired of Ivy League BS. She did really well. She married one of the other investment guys (who was my spouse's sibling). |
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Parents: Chapel Hill, UR
Kids: Chapel Hill (OOS) |
Explain the point of it. Why is it interesting? |
I actually think it's super interesting My in-laws: Northwestern. FIL was a sports admit Their kids: Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Tufts. All sports. One of them introduced me to his brother 40 years ago at a game where they were playing each other. Of all my sisters and brothers in law, only one of their kids (my kids' cousins, there are 18 of them) is now going to their own parent's alma mater |
I think the question mostly seems geared towards where your kids are getting into college based on your own alumni connections I don't know that undergrad admissions caress so much about graduate connections because it's all about rah-rah sis boom bah alumni enthusiasm and that usually just doesn't happen with graduate schools But my DH would be Harvard Harvard Harvard And none of our kids went to Harvard |
| Should include grand parents and ancestors |
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Parents: Harvard
DC: Cornell and TBD |
Six kids? WTF is up with the all of the breeders? |
| This tells me how white this forum is. Only one post with HBCUs in a DC forum is crazy. |
1960s Catholics, FIL himself is the youngest from a family of 8. My last SIL was born when my MIL was 45 When I first met them all out in Chicago in the 80s I had to keep a notebook to keep track My FIL was the only one of the whole family to go to college at all, and he was the youngest That's why it was crazy they got so many of their kids into Ivies ... but it was also a very different time 40 years ago and was already changing by the time they got their bonus baby. Their eldest (BIL who introduced me to DH) was at college when she was born and I met her when she was 2. She's in her 40s now. |
This is a pretty niche forum for actual americans It's a destination forum for foreign accounts Apologies to those who take offense, but I think this is easily recognizable when you see posts like "My life was so much worse under the Biden economy, now it's so much better! Especially because we now have a president who doesn't fall asleep anymore!" Like, absolute intentional gaslighting. But, I do enjoy the college threads. |
Someone did |
Interesting! just like everywhere else |