Are all Big 3 alumni this insufferable?

[Anonymous]

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.

Lol….you’re oblivious. Her statement is factually correct and regardless you have no standing to judge her lived experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree that the negative reaction here is way overblown. The essay does give me a touch of the ick, but so do about half the posts on this forum. It really just reads like an earnest journal entry that probably should have stayed in the journal.

Clearly these posters don’t realize a world that they are clearly really not part of. You have to be aware to realize what she’s talking about and I think many are not aware. There is “wealthy” and then there is wealthy combined with elite clubs, summering at the same places, knowing all of the same people at all travel destinations. It can be polarizing even to “wealthy” people. That is what she is talking about. It’s a culture And you can be “rich” technically and still come in to this kind of Uber wealth world and realize wow it’s on a whole different level than you could’ve ever imagined. Clearly you people trashing her are not part of that world so you don’t even know what you’re missing out on.

So?

[Anonymous]

This is a bit much on the piling on - even for dcum. She is only 18.

However, to the posters who suggest she just should’ve chosen to go to Yale or just switch from Dartmouth,
it’s actually not always as easy as that. Legacy admissions - esp double legacy- is a hook in admissions in a way that being the grand niece of a famous broadcaster isn’t. Despite her throwaway line on ‘shoulda gone to Yale’ if she’s like most legacies, she probably did early decision which at Dartmouth is binding.

The article is certainly not the most elegant way to grapple with this particular form of privilege, which does require you to go to a parents’ college or as others have noted simply not apply at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a bit much on the piling on - even for dcum. She is only 18.

However, to the posters who suggest she just should’ve chosen to go to Yale or just switch from Dartmouth,
it’s actually not always as easy as that. Legacy admissions - esp double legacy- is a hook in admissions in a way that being the grand niece of a famous broadcaster isn’t. Despite her throwaway line on ‘shoulda gone to Yale’ if she’s like most legacies, she probably did early decision which at Dartmouth is binding.

The article is certainly not the most elegant way to grapple with this particular form of privilege, which does require you to go to a parents’ college or as others have noted simply not apply at all.

Excellent point!

[Anonymous]

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

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a bit much on the piling on - even for dcum. She is only 18.

However, to the posters who suggest she just should’ve chosen to go to Yale or just switch from Dartmouth,
it’s actually not always as easy as that. Legacy admissions - esp double legacy- is a hook in admissions in a way that being the grand niece of a famous broadcaster isn’t. Despite her throwaway line on ‘shoulda gone to Yale’ if she’s like most legacies, she probably did early decision which at Dartmouth is binding.

The article is certainly not the most elegant way to grapple with this particular form of privilege, which does require you to go to a parents’ college or as others have noted simply not apply at all.

Excellent point!

She didn’t just say she should have gone to Yale, she said she got in. So she didn’t apply to Dartmouth early decision

[Anonymous]

‘I should’ve gone to Yale. Even though I didn’t like it as much, at least no one would attribute my acceptance to my last name.‘

It’s artfully worded. It’s implied but not stated.

Usually the ‘legacy angst’ goes away if you also applied and were accepted to a school that’s even harder to get into.

Don’t get me wrong legacies at ivies are no slouches. Most legacy applicants are rejected. But there is a reason people pick to apply to the school where they have a hook.

[Anonymous]

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.

Sometimes the truth is absurd.

[Anonymous]

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.

Cringy maybe but not absurd or oblivious. Someone else who went to Stanford wrote basically the same thing in an opinion piece in the New York Times a few weeks ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:An NCS alum now at Dartmouth wrote this woe-is-me op-ed about how being a legacy is sooooo hard:

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/10/i-think-ive-seen-this-film-before

I was planning on having my DD apply to NCS and the other Big 3, but this is making me reconsider. Does the extreme privilege of these environments breed students this insufferable?

OP are you jealous much??? I think you are a low class ass for posting this making fun of a still teen. Please get a life and do the rest of us a favor and do not apply to private. I get what she is saying as I went from public to private and there was a very distinct difference and private opened up an entire new world and places people summered together and same clubs and towns and whatnot. Clearly you don’t get it.

She is a legal adult who was stupid enough to publish this with her name attached. Sorry, but consequences.

Oooh you are so scary - what consequences having a bunch of jealous wackos trash her on here? Her writing is excellent I can see why she was admitted to an Ivy and maybe you or your daughter were not and now you find it necessary to trash her on here?

Your writing is..not excellent. Take a seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

TT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:‘I should’ve gone to Yale. Even though I didn’t like it as much, at least no one would attribute my acceptance to my last name.‘

It’s artfully worded. It’s implied but not stated.

Usually the ‘legacy angst’ goes away if you also applied and were accepted to a school that’s even harder to get into.

Don’t get me wrong legacies at ivies are no slouches. Most legacy applicants are rejected. But there is a reason people pick to apply to the school where they have a hook.

No one turns down Yale for Dartmouth.

Calling BS in this.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why all of you are piling on her. I enjoyed reading her articles.

[Anonymous]

Went to an Ivy. Have current kid at an Ivy. What I don’t get? 6 weeks in, everyone knows she’s a legacy? How? Name isn’t recognizable. Seems like she chose to make this known. Whole thing seems odd.

[Anonymous]

I didn't read all the comments, but I find this article absolutely terrible. It's embarassing and I'm surprised they agreed to publish it. Incredibly tone deaf.

Signed,

NCS Alum