Only if your kid got into an Ivy in last 5 yrs. - how'd you do it?

[Anonymous]

Were you one of the cheerleaders in the year Penn's football squad went undefeated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get what OP was expecting. Top grades, top test scores and standout sports or other activitiy/ies. The stories are stunningly similar.

Yeah, I wondered that too. We all knew the answers before she started the thread. It seems like she wants a forum to parade her snootiness?

From a mom who would be happy if her kids got into an Ivy or other competitive school (Swarthmore, MIT), but who doesn't feel any need to badmouth other posters and public schools in the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't ask for your opinion. I told snarks to stay away ...go over to the public school forum.

Ah, since OP is clearly a snarky beyatch herself, we must conclude that her kids are in public. So why post this on the private school thread?

[Anonymous]

OP, tell us, how dumb and boring are your kids really, that they won't get into an Ivy without extensive "packaging" by you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Et tu Brutes pp!

Et tu Brute, not Brutes.

Forgive me for being pedantic, but a discussion of Ivys is no place to forget your vocative.

Silly me, I thought "brutes" was a pun!

[Anonymous]

That would be "Ivies", not "Ivys".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, tell us, how dumb and boring are your kids really, that they won't get into an Ivy without extensive "packaging" by you?

More important -- do her kids have her genes, or her husband's? Because she doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the box.... A little narrowly focussed, if you know what I mean, compared to the broad interests exhibited by truly bright people....

[Anonymous]

Perhaps you all should have started this quest prior to conception.
It might have only taken a little clomid. So much easier than all these years of packaging and stress!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/education/19yale.html?_r=1&hp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That would be "Ivies", not "Ivys".

No. Contraction of plural of "Ivy League", not plural of "Ivy".

[Anonymous]

Please Poison Ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That would be "Ivies", not "Ivys".

No. Contraction of plural of "Ivy League", not plural of "Ivy".

If it's a contraction of "Ivy Leagues" then it should be "Ivy's"? Which looks really wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That would be "Ivies", not "Ivys".

No. Contraction of plural of "Ivy League", not plural of "Ivy".

Some of us who went to Ivies use it as a plural of Ivy.

[Anonymous]

Somebody decide and let OP know. She's got her panties in a twist trying to establish a sense of authenticity about her Ivy dreams, and this seems like a key piece of the dream.

[Anonymous]

So many people still can't read. If you don't like the question -- go to the preachy forum with your name on it! And no, I never stepped foot inside a public school.

[Anonymous]

I did.

Did you even attend school? Which one?