Are all Big 3 alumni this insufferable?

[Anonymous]

this thread makes the kid who wrote the article look like the normal one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just read her other essay.

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/10/cradle-to-cap-and-gown-the-prep-school-to-ivy-pipeline

"After attending public school through the eighth grade, I switched to an all-girls private school in Washington, D.C. Going from a class of 500 to a class of 74 was a shock, but the true jolt was adapting to the pure wealth and privilege surrounding me. I consider my family to be very well off, but my peers made me feel like a pauper. Although there are a fair number of students on financial aid at exclusive high schools, the majority of the student body comes from rich, well-connected families."

Absurd. Oblivious and absurd.

I don't understand what is absurd about that quote. It seems accurate to me.

As someone who went from MCPS to NCS in 7th grade in the 1980s and then went to a school where a lot of people wanted to go to Dartmouth but didn’t quite have the stats, I had the same exact experience.

Colgate?

Trin trin?

[Anonymous]

The writer's great-aunt is Katie Couric. I get that she's finding herself and whatnot, but it's hard to have sympathy. She could have chosen not to got to Dartmouth...

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Anonymous wrote:The writer's great-aunt is Katie Couric. I get that she's finding herself and whatnot, but it's hard to have sympathy. She could have chosen not to got to Dartmouth...

Oh wow. Makes the whole article even more cringe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The writer's great-aunt is Katie Couric. I get that she's finding herself and whatnot, but it's hard to have sympathy. She could have chosen not to got to Dartmouth...

Wowzers. It sounds like after only 6 weeks in, she is being harshly reminded of that choice. Life is full of regrets at that age.

[Anonymous]

Meh - I can relate. At my private high school, my father was a well known athlete for a certain sport. I did not have the same athletic ability… I really relate to what she says about the community pressure more so than the parental pressure.

I also don’t understand why someone can’t express their issues and acknowledge it’s not the most pressing issue? If it is affecting them, why not be honest about it? Especially in a community newspaper?

[Anonymous]

She needs to drop out, go to U of Maryland on a work study program and then write an article- that would be interesting.

But instead this is just revealing - legacy admits are affirmative action for white generational wealth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The writer's great-aunt is Katie Couric. I get that she's finding herself and whatnot, but it's hard to have sympathy. She could have chosen not to got to Dartmouth...

Wowzers. It sounds like after only 6 weeks in, she is being harshly reminded of that choice. Life is full of regrets at that age.

I mean I went to college with people who moved across the country to get away from their family name. It's a conscious decision even at that age. Her uncle that went to Dartmouth has the same last name and is a Hollywood writer, director and producer. Her grandmother has a cancer center at UVA named after her. She was not unaware of her family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The writer's great-aunt is Katie Couric. I get that she's finding herself and whatnot, but it's hard to have sympathy. She could have chosen not to got to Dartmouth...

Wow- nice catch! How did you know that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The writer's great-aunt is Katie Couric. I get that she's finding herself and whatnot, but it's hard to have sympathy. She could have chosen not to got to Dartmouth...

Wowzers. It sounds like after only 6 weeks in, she is being harshly reminded of that choice. Life is full of regrets at that age.

I mean I went to college with people who moved across the country to get away from their family name. It's a conscious decision even at that age. Her uncle that went to Dartmouth has the same last name and is a Hollywood writer, director and producer. Her grandmother has a cancer center at UVA named after her. She was not unaware of her family.

And she said in her other article that she "felt like a pauper"?!!!!! The audacity of this girl...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The writer's great-aunt is Katie Couric. I get that she's finding herself and whatnot, but it's hard to have sympathy. She could have chosen not to got to Dartmouth...

Wowzers. It sounds like after only 6 weeks in, she is being harshly reminded of that choice. Life is full of regrets at that age.

I mean I went to college with people who moved across the country to get away from their family name. It's a conscious decision even at that age. Her uncle that went to Dartmouth has the same last name and is a Hollywood writer, director and producer. Her grandmother has a cancer center at UVA named after her. She was not unaware of her family.

CORRECT, that is why I said she is being "harshly reminded of that choice". Not that she did not know/was unaware. She made a choice, that she clearly regrets now. Those are huge shoes to fill, and she appears to be doubting feasibility of doing so. Understandable, at least to me. But, after reading what's listed about notable family accomplishments, I cannot understand why in the world that girl did not opt into Yale or ANY other top school.

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Anonymous wrote:The writer's great-aunt is Katie Couric. I get that she's finding herself and whatnot, but it's hard to have sympathy. She could have chosen not to got to Dartmouth...

Wowzers. It sounds like after only 6 weeks in, she is being harshly reminded of that choice. Life is full of regrets at that age.

I mean I went to college with people who moved across the country to get away from their family name. It's a conscious decision even at that age. Her uncle that went to Dartmouth has the same last name and is a Hollywood writer, director and producer. Her grandmother has a cancer center at UVA named after her. She was not unaware of her family.

CORRECT, that is why I said she is being "harshly reminded of that choice". Not that she did not know/was unaware. She made a choice, that she clearly regrets now. Those are huge shoes to fill, and she appears to be doubting feasibility of doing so. Understandable, at least to me. But, after reading what's listed about notable family accomplishments, I cannot understand why in the world that girl did not opt into Yale or ANY other top school.

Fair point. It would be interesting to see whether she comes to terms and stays, continues to whine and stays, or transfers. Regretting decisions is fine. We all do it. One's character develops from what they do with that regret.

[Anonymous]

It comes down to poor parenting.

I’m the first generation of my extended family to go to college, and it was a no-name one. From there I went to a good law school and eventually became a partner in big law making just under $1 million a year. We raised our kids in a nice DC suburb and sent them to good public schools. They had a very nice upbringing and went to highly respected although not Ivy League level colleges.

They could not be more aware of their privilege, nigh withstanding it being only a fraction of this girl’s, and I cannot imagine any of them ever writing or even thinking like she did. If they ever did, I’d be ashamed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hope she doesn’t rope in our awesome Dartmouth neighbor kid who was first in his class at a big W public school (gasp).

MCPS doesn't do class rankings. How could you, or the neighbor kid, know he was first in the class? At a minimum there were probably multiple people with straight As and all honors or above classes (or as many as one can do given required PE, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Omg 4 pages about one 18 year old kid who wrote a terrible article.

Of course not everyone at ncs or Dartmouth is like this.

But surely you already knew this?