Two unhooked kids!

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I knew a family like this. Turns out they were URM... totally shocked. Could be same thing

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Anonymous wrote:Does the acronym refer to Harvard Yale Princeton, etc?

Does anyone think we are weird to talk this way?

Where have you wandered in from? No, seriously I want to move there 😂

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t sense jealousy in OP post at all. Curiosity and maybe inexperience.

Kids are probably great and humble. You never saw how accomplished they were because they didn’t brag. And guessing their parents didn’t either.

Best guess.

Really? I "sensed" it because she SAID it!

Here's her direct quote:

"I am both jealous and admiring at the same time. Ugh."

I think the tone is not the “I’m so jealous I want to go postal on them” more tongue in cheek. Lighten up

Yeah. Serious, DAD, you seem a bit obsessed. I'm jealous too. Please don't stalk me here like you did other mom.

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Anonymous wrote:What is HYPS

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford

Sometimes it includes HYPSM (mit)

The most ‘desirable’ schools on college confidential and reddit college groups.

What about Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown?

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Anonymous wrote:What is HYPS

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford

Sometimes it includes HYPSM (mit)

The most ‘desirable’ schools on college confidential and reddit college groups.

What about Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown?

Penn, Cornell?

[Anonymous]

You don’t truly know them.

I’m sure people say that about my kids. We are humble (except what I’m writing right now) so you have no idea their test scores, grades, accomplishments, extracurriculars.

People were sort of blown away when my son graduated first in his class (only 1 valedictorian) since we never talked about his grades, scores, etc to neighbors or close friends. He always was very, very bright but a social kid that wasn’t in the “hardcore face in book, parents putting him Hopkins summer stuff and math competitions, etc”.

The kids are obviously super smart.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t truly know them.

I’m sure people say that about my kids. We are humble (except what I’m writing right now) so you have no idea their test scores, grades, accomplishments, extracurriculars.

People were sort of blown away when my son graduated first in his class (only 1 valedictorian) since we never talked about his grades, scores, etc to neighbors or close friends. He always was very, very bright but a social kid that wasn’t in the “hardcore face in book, parents putting him Hopkins summer stuff and math competitions, etc”.

The kids are obviously super smart.


Super Smart and lucky both, assuming they were unhooked! There are many unhooked super smart kids but few get in to desired schools.
If you don’t mind- what race they are- Asians or whites/ European/ middle Eastern?

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t truly know them.

I’m sure people say that about my kids. We are humble (except what I’m writing right now) so you have no idea their test scores, grades, accomplishments, extracurriculars.

People were sort of blown away when my son graduated first in his class (only 1 valedictorian) since we never talked about his grades, scores, etc to neighbors or close friends. He always was very, very bright but a social kid that wasn’t in the “hardcore face in book, parents putting him Hopkins summer stuff and math competitions, etc”.

The kids are obviously super smart.


Super Smart and lucky both, assuming they were unhooked! There are many unhooked super smart kids but few get in to desired schools.
If you don’t mind- what race they are- Asians or whites/ European/ middle Eastern?

White\asian

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Anonymous wrote:What is HYPS

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford

Sometimes it includes HYPSM (mit)

The most ‘desirable’ schools on college confidential and reddit college groups.

What about Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown?

The P is for Princeton.
Dartmouth, no. Brown, no.
I’m just saying that’s the acronym. Not passing the judgement myself on those schools!

[Anonymous]

My son got into Yale (he didn't go). He's white, not first to go to college, we're UMC, public school, no donations to schools, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:What would you think when a family has two smart but unhooked kids that got into HYPS (not the same year). Neither are sporty either and they aren’t legacy or donors. Just regular educated professional people
I am both jealous and admiring at the same time. Ugh.

Why are you jealous?

ok I will play along...
Because I want MY two super nice smart kid to get into HYPSM, duh.

Well, that's pretty sad. And it shouldn't make you jealous. Jealousy is an ugly thing, especially over something that silly.

Okay lady. Be self righteous on an anonymous board, cool. And calling other people ‘silly’ for their honest feeling is sad too

Well, I'm a man for one thing. Regardless, I just think it's sad. I'm not jealous of anybody else's kids. I'm happy with my own.

HAHA says dude on the DCurbanMOM site and looking through college discussion board; because you’re the type who says ‘I’m happy wherever my kid fits in” to everyone but secretly hopes for an Ivy. Be honest with yourself.

Look, MOM, your premise isn't true. I'm not "secretly hoping for an Ivy" for my kids. But here's the thing: even if it were true, decent and normal people can both "hope" for something for your own kids without being "jealous" of somebody else's kid for attaining it. We're not all as petty as you.

You seem having no sense of the context when one says in the open that she is jealous of someone's achievement. She is more admiring than really jealous. Are you really that clueless?

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Anonymous wrote:I guess it is a lottery and some kids have to win. Guess they got lucky x2.

Or pulled an Aunt Becky.

More likely, the two kids are just brilliant. I’ve met some of these students, and they tower over regular smart kids like mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew a family like this. Turns out they were URM... totally shocked. Could be same thing

Yep, know a kid this cycle Hopkins.

[Anonymous]

2nd kid was legacy, right? After older sibling attended? Or does it not work that way?

[Anonymous]

Why is this surprising? A lot of parents have two kids. If one is brilliant and hard working the other is likely to be as well due to genetics and parents instilled work habits. Also, if parents figured out the recipe for success with the ivies for one kid it will most likely would work for the other