Big 3 College Placement 2018-19 Cycle

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Anonymous wrote:Brainiest is fine to get ahead if you’re not looking to get into management, but at the end of the day, soft skills are what secures the truly big salaries.

And everyone knows "truly big salaries" are what really matters in life. Actually, "truly big salaries" go to people who are willing to do truly boring things.

Who's claiming that "truly big salaries are what really matters in life? They do help full pay for private school tuitions and/or houses in the best public school neighborhoods though.

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This post has really gone off the rails. You know that smart people can go to other schools too....I would hope many of you consider these people successful. Looks like Texas A&M is a better choice than HYP.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/where-the-top-fortune-500-ceos-attended-college

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I was directed here by the article I read today on The Atlantic. Hard to believe that you don't recognize how entitled and yet desperate so many of you sound. Do you realize that it's not always about the thousands of dollars that you spent on prep schools? Not to mention the pressure that you place upon your children and the school teachers and the counselors who help to navigate their college applications? I can't believe that you would put this kind of pressure upon your children. Think about the demands that you place upon your kids that likely make them feel like failures or fear failure at such an early and impressionable age. So what if they don't get into Harvard? We live in a small town in the North Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest. Farming country. My children grew up like real kids. They roamed farmland and played and ran quads and swam in lakes and rivers and fished and went crabbing and clamming and hiked and explored the great outdoors. They attended public schools. They all did well. Our youngest took a year and a half off from school after graduation. He didn't know what he wanted to BE. After that break, he attended a community college and graduated in the top 1% of the college. Phi Theta Kappa. He received offers from several Ivy League schools, without even having to put in an application. He was almost 22 when he graduated from a "mere" community college and was then accepted into a prestigious Engineering University in Colorado. Google the best Engineering School that you never heard of. Yes, it's that good. They don't have to advertise. He was one of 14 transfer students from WA State accepted into the Colorado School of Mines that year. It's the Ivy League Engineering University of the West. Our three older children all graduated from great Universities and are all well employed and happy in their lives. What is the goal? The goal is to give our children the best experience, the happiest childhoods. To encourage them in their interests and their endeavors, and to let them know that we, their parents, have faith in them and support them in what means the MOST to them. It's not all about you. Quit trying to curate your children's childhoods and let them go free. Take a deep breath and just let your children BE.

Bless you. The culture in DC is terrible for the kids, and terrible for the nation.

In fairness, the culture is pretty widespread amongst all rich white suburbanite parents, no matter the state. But yeah, this entire thread speaks volume of how entitled so many parents feel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP is a moron.

HA! And clearly so are you. I love it when a poster makes a moronic statement, proving themselves to actually be the moron.

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Cool story, bro

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Getting into a T15 is great but it honestly doesn’t matter where in the top 50 US News (or top 20 SLAC) an elite prep lifer lands; they’re better prepared and their soft skills are more polished than 99% of their peers. The swots that claw their way into an elite never have “it” and it’s their downfall. Go ahead and cling to outliers but this country is run by elite prep schoolers. Always has, always will.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...sounds like lots of posts from entitled and dull rich white kids kvetching about admissions, rather than working hard and and being talented and sharp like their indian and chinese friends

I wouldn't be surprised if many of the posters you mocked are actually non-white.....

In fact, it's racist to assume they are white. The message is that POC don't care about college admissions?

Went right to the racist card? Weak. Indian and Chinese, not POC, is what was mentioned. Long and observant look at indian and chinese communities vs high achieving whites shows that the I and C communities work harder because their families a generally insecure and have a sort of chip on their shoulder. The top 10 shcools would be 50% asian if admissions were left to proper metrics, rather than diversity legacy sports initiatives. Oh the thought of ivy campuses with 50% asians would be SHOCKING to entitled elites who slither their way into admission without demonstrating equal academic achievement to their asian friends. Try not to melt with the so called racist overtones of this post. Just let the thoughts sink in as you bask in your privilege.

Also, good advise to all you youngsters: despite current trends many of you who are money motivated will not achieve your financial potential in engineering. There are way too many exceptional foreign engineers who come here from schools like IIT in india. BTW, IIT grads are the brainiest people in the world; they make MIT people look SOFT. Medical, law, finance, and even dental are far easier way to make the kind of money that is commiserate to your abilities, without the continuous failures (and pesky competition) that will ultimately happen if you go toe to toe with IIT type peoples. Best of luck, ya'll.

IIT grads are no doubt smart, but I will not go as far as saying they are "the brainiest people in the world". There are many very smart Chinese and South Korean grads as well.

Oxbridge white guy here who went head to head with IIT guy in grad school. We’d both say the same thing about each other. Kyodai, Todai, Sorbonne/escole not bad either.

But. Those are all TEST/GRADES/MERIT based admit systems. Heck, my uni interview was a 2 hour long maths test in a blackboard.

The American uni admit system is a total crapshoot, and getting more so.

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Both PPs were under the delusion that the most popular colleges in the US were popular due to the innate intelligence and hard work of the students there. Ha! That's is so funny!

Merit based ANYTHING in the US does not exist. That is not how it has ever worked here.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...sounds like lots of posts from entitled and dull rich white kids kvetching about admissions, rather than working hard and and being talented and sharp like their indian and chinese friends

I wouldn't be surprised if many of the posters you mocked are actually non-white.....

In fact, it's racist to assume they are white. The message is that POC don't care about college admissions?

Went right to the racist card? Weak. Indian and Chinese, not POC, is what was mentioned. Long and observant look at indian and chinese communities vs high achieving whites shows that the I and C communities work harder because their families a generally insecure and have a sort of chip on their shoulder. The top 10 shcools would be 50% asian if admissions were left to proper metrics, rather than diversity legacy sports initiatives. Oh the thought of ivy campuses with 50% asians would be SHOCKING to entitled elites who slither their way into admission without demonstrating equal academic achievement to their asian friends. Try not to melt with the so called racist overtones of this post. Just let the thoughts sink in as you bask in your privilege.

Also, good advise to all you youngsters: despite current trends many of you who are money motivated will not achieve your financial potential in engineering. There are way too many exceptional foreign engineers who come here from schools like IIT in india. BTW, IIT grads are the brainiest people in the world; they make MIT people look SOFT. Medical, law, finance, and even dental are far easier way to make the kind of money that is commiserate to your abilities, without the continuous failures (and pesky competition) that will ultimately happen if you go toe to toe with IIT type peoples. Best of luck, ya'll.

IIT grads are no doubt smart, but I will not go as far as saying they are "the brainiest people in the world". There are many very smart Chinese and South Korean grads as well.

Oxbridge white guy here who went head to head with IIT guy in grad school. We’d both say the same thing about each other. Kyodai, Todai, Sorbonne/escole not bad either.

But. Those are all TEST/GRADES/MERIT based admit systems. Heck, my uni interview was a 2 hour long maths test in a blackboard.

The American uni admit system is a total crapshoot, and getting more so.

Yeah because when my kids applied to college they didn’t have to submit any test scores or grades.

If this is what an Oxbridge education produces, no wonder kids from the US use it as a safety.

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American education system is not purely merit based nor its economy capitalistic. We are just conned into thinking so.

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Anonymous wrote:American education system is not purely merit based nor its economy capitalistic. We are just conned into thinking so.

Who thinks it's purely merit based now or has ever been? Athletic recruiting, donor help, legacy help, etc. have all been in place for decades. If you thought it was, you were just naive.

But, just because it is not purely merit based does not mean that it is a total crapshoot. Academic merit (and that's what you mean) is just one of a number of factors. I don't know whether the other systems are as purely academic merit based as we are led to believe, either, we just don't have the same familiarity with the quirks and corruption of those systems as we do of ours.

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Merit includes achievements in athletics and other extra-curriculars. It's myopic to suggest otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:Merit includes achievements in athletics and other extra-curriculars. It's myopic to suggest otherwise.

"we disagree"

- the rest of the world

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The graduates of just the IIT schools in India produce about 25% of Silicon Valley startups!!! These graduates have a dominant presence in the United States in tech, finance, science and engineering. They have become our best, most productive, and creative citizens. BTW, once the IIT guys have kids in the US, they make sure their kids go into medicine, because they know that there are waves of IIT grads still coming over to compete with them. Learn you lessons, boys and girls, there is less competition and talent in the non-engineering fields. Make good choices.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...sounds like lots of posts from entitled and dull rich white kids kvetching about admissions, rather than working hard and and being talented and sharp like their indian and chinese friends

I wouldn't be surprised if many of the posters you mocked are actually non-white.....

In fact, it's racist to assume they are white. The message is that POC don't care about college admissions?

Went right to the racist card? Weak. Indian and Chinese, not POC, is what was mentioned. Long and observant look at indian and chinese communities vs high achieving whites shows that the I and C communities work harder because their families a generally insecure and have a sort of chip on their shoulder. The top 10 shcools would be 50% asian if admissions were left to proper metrics, rather than diversity legacy sports initiatives. Oh the thought of ivy campuses with 50% asians would be SHOCKING to entitled elites who slither their way into admission without demonstrating equal academic achievement to their asian friends. Try not to melt with the so called racist overtones of this post. Just let the thoughts sink in as you bask in your privilege.

Also, good advise to all you youngsters: despite current trends many of you who are money motivated will not achieve your financial potential in engineering. There are way too many exceptional foreign engineers who come here from schools like IIT in india. BTW, IIT grads are the brainiest people in the world; they make MIT people look SOFT. Medical, law, finance, and even dental are far easier way to make the kind of money that is commiserate to your abilities, without the continuous failures (and pesky competition) that will ultimately happen if you go toe to toe with IIT type peoples. Best of luck, ya'll.

IIT grads are no doubt smart, but I will not go as far as saying they are "the brainiest people in the world". There are many very smart Chinese and South Korean grads as well.

IIT is a university system in India. China and South Korea are countries. IIT might have become the most important university in the world. It has a low endowment but the most impactful grads. CEOs, professors, computer scientists, senators, all know this. Ask someone who is "high up" ; they'll tell you how the world works. HA!