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

[Anonymous]

that's witty preacher

[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.

I'm beginning to think that we are all being taken for a ride by this person (the OP). How could someone truly be so awful? I imagine this is a 16-year-old laughing his or her head off reading all of the responses to his or her (intentionally ridiculous) pompous, arrogant comments.

[Anonymous]

My DC did for elementary. Among parents were Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth and Stanford alum. All undergrad. Just DC's class. Legacies abound at publics, too, OP!

[Anonymous]

exactly -- to get a rise out of people and to see how far people will take the question...some people are truly nasty on these threads --no? I doubt "Penn" with her open knee obsession really went to Penn -- unless of course those slums of Philly really got to her and she decided to ply her trade in the hoods there.

[Anonymous]

She never volunteered which dorm she was in? Do you think she actually went to Penn?

[Anonymous]

No -- that was my point. I guessed she went to bottom of the barrel -- but Penn is middle of the barrel Ivy. She had a really dirty way of expressing herself -- she jumped on OP -- but sounded very subpar. Real Ivy Leaguers are able to express themselves better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC did for elementary. Among parents were Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth and Stanford alum. All undergrad. Just DC's class. Legacies abound at publics, too, OP!

Yup, at my kid's public elementary we had multiple parents from Harvard, as well as several from MIT, and numerous other Ivies.

OP is a hoax.

[Anonymous]

But the question is which children in the last 5 years went to an Ivy----not their parents. It's much harder to get into any college now -- much less an Ivy. Even old "safeties" such as UMD and UDel are hard to get into now. And, there was no mention of whether the kid should come from a private or a public hs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:that's witty preacher

You see, this is what's wrong with OP. The post she's responding too made me laugh. OP's post is just lame and laugh-free. A person who went to the Ivies herself would be smart enough to come up with a witty retort.

So my guess is that she's disappointed with her own education, and is over-compensating by pushing her kids into the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But the question is which children in the last 5 years went to an Ivy----not their parents. It's much harder to get into any college now -- much less an Ivy. Even old "safeties" such as UMD and UDel are hard to get into now. And, there was no mention of whether the kid should come from a private or a public hs

Actually, the response about Ivy parents of public school kids was a response to OP's assertion that only the dregs go to public schools, or send their kids there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No -- that was my point. I guessed she went to bottom of the barrel -- but Penn is middle of the barrel Ivy. She had a really dirty way of expressing herself -- she jumped on OP -- but sounded very subpar. Real Ivy Leaguers are able to express themselves better.

ITA.

[Anonymous]

To answer the original question, two words: Flash cards.

[Anonymous]

Hard work. Drill and kill as necessary.

It works!

[Anonymous]

Sorry, OP, but you need to send your kids to public school. Unless you've donated tons of money to alma mater dear, your kids' legacy status will get them nowhere. Sending them to privates just means that they will be competing against tons of other legacy kids, some of whose parents actually have donated tons of money. And your kids will be competing against other legacy kids who may be more athletically or musically talented than yours.

So it's public school for your kids....

[Anonymous]

There are legacy students at public. In DC's elementary school class, I note Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Dartmouth, all undergrad. (I count Stanford as an Ivy equivalent). And this is all I know about! There could well be more.