Why can't folks that send their kids to average colleges ever admit it?

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Right, she's the sad one. Pot, meet ketle.

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Anonymous wrote:Right, she's the sad one. Pot, meet ketle.

????

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Anonymous wrote:With a global economy and technical skills required for every white collar gig and so many youths completing bachelors degrees you can not compare previous generations to millennials. It's more competitive than ever. Status degrees certainly don't hurt.

+1

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I know people with degrees from Ivy schools who have done less well than people without degrees from fancy schools. Here are some that you many know:

Steve Jobs
Ross Perot Sr.
Bill Gates
Walt Disney
George Lucas
Morgan Freeman
Halle Berry

A name brand pedigree can't replace talent and hard work.

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Anonymous wrote: Yeah, I have a friend like this. Her son is awesome. He went to a great high school. But his grades were not that great. He ended up going to a so-so college. Used to read all about him on Facebook regarding his high school years. But I haven't heard a peep
about him since he got into a so-so college. I think she's embarrassed. But she's like that. Sad.

Sounds like a lot of judgments & possibly misplaced assumptions on your part. Parents are more likely to post when kids are in HS and they attend all their events, take pictures, etc. When a young adult is living away at college, what is she supposed to post to prove to you she's still proud of him -- "Oh I heard Sam got an A in organic chemistry" or "Here's a picture Sam sent me of him at a tailgate, doesn't he look happy?" These kind of things would just be weird. Plus you have no idea of the factors that went into their choice of college, or whether he's thriving there. Your post reveals more about yourself than your friend -- sounds like you she could be very proud of him & happy he's doing great, but you want to be obnoxious and project embarrassment. Sad you're so small minded.

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Average in whose eyes? The rankings are not everything and can be gamed. What matters is your child and their fit.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems so unfair to posters like OP, who find themselves forced to bow down to like-minded parents with kids that got into even better schools yet unable to pull rank over sane parents whose kids are at schools that are merely "average."

Nailed it.

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Steve Jobs went briefly to Reed which for intellectual endeavors is considered s top college. There he learned the Beauty of calligraphy which influenced his product design. Education is about expanding the
Mind. The correlation to earnings or prestige is misplaced

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Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

+1

I'm with you, PP -- except for the last sentence of tacked-on politics. This place is filled with hyper-competitive sociopaths.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

+1

I'm with you, PP -- except for the last sentence of tacked-on politics. This place is filled with hyper-competitive sociopaths.

Completely agree that certain cultures are hyper competitive but I sometimes wonder if my kids are going to get run over by these people when they get to college and beyond.

[Anonymous]

Keep wishing my kids had a chance to grow up where people are nicer. Found diverse public school with many first generation Americans had kinder students than metro area independent school. I worry about the brutes dominating too, but These new Americans are our future and they show more compassion.

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Anonymous wrote:With a global economy and technical skills required for every white collar gig and so many youths completing bachelors degrees you can not compare previous generations to millennials. It's more competitive than ever. Status degrees certainly don't hurt.

Of course "status degrees" don't hurt. But there always have been & always will be plenty of highly successful people without degrees from top schools. I am a millennial (born in 1991) & have multiple friends from high school who are doing very well despite having graduated from colleges that many DCUM posters would consider average at best.

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Anonymous wrote:Steve Jobs went briefly to Reed which for intellectual endeavors is considered s top college. There he learned the Beauty of calligraphy which influenced his product design. Education is about expanding the
Mind. The correlation to earnings or prestige is misplaced

Trying to prove your point with 1 in 100,000,000 geniuses makes you sound stupid. You're banking on your child becoming Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates? Come on.