For all of you bitter/obnoxious DMV parents

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Anonymous wrote:This thread fully made my morning, the arguments are just too funny

Right? So many try-hard parents here.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty impressive, but I didn’t see a single Virginia Tech commitment - Riverdale needs to step it up.

Is this a joke?

What’s funny in that observation?

VT isn’t all that, if anything its a safety for most

Oh boy, the usual VT-hater/malcontent is back. Sorry your kid didn’t get in, along with many others.
DP

Sorry your kid didn’t get into MIT, Caltech and CM. Guess what… mine did!

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Makes sense, already connected students are the ones getting in more now.

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Meh…. Satya Nadella went to a public school in Hyderabad, India. Engineering in a good (not top tier) college, grad at good not top tier. He is an ideas/vision guy who tripled Microsoft’s market cap in 11 years, like him there are plenty of Fortune 500 ceos from public schools.

* Also, plenty of Harvard, Yale guys reporting to him.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait what’s up with wealthy families on FA, can someone explain??

#Iykyk

Well we don't, so inform us

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Anonymous wrote:Riverdale parent here. It is a great school with smart kids, but also unbelievable wealth and connections. It has been eye opening to see the extent to which $$ makes the world go round…

Are you going to share any stories?

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Anonymous wrote:Meh…. Satya Nadella went to a public school in Hyderabad, India. Engineering in a good (not top tier) college, grad at good not top tier. He is an ideas/vision guy who tripled Microsoft’s market cap in 11 years, like him there are plenty of Fortune 500 ceos from public schools.

* Also, plenty of Harvard, Yale guys reporting to him.

But who's on the Board? And how does the Ivy percentage of his direct reports compare to the Ivy percentage of the general population?

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feel bad for the three kids who went to SUNY Albany - not that it’s a bad school, it’s actually my hubbies alma mater - but a bit counter intuitive to frivolously spend $60k+ a year on one of the most exclusive private high schools in the country and then attend ur mid tier state school

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Anonymous wrote:LOL

Riverdale costs approx $63,000 per year for HS.

It is a fantastic place.

And if you live in NYC with money to burn absolutely a good choice.

I have a home in NYC, not our primary.
My friends who send their children to Riverdale would be appaulled at your gauche posting.

Most people can not afford $63,000 a year OP.

And honestly, it's stupid financially. This is why I will have money for generations and you will not.

By the way many publics beat your school in college admissions, for free.

I don’t know, your friend might be more embarrassed by you using the word gauche. And it’s not stupid financially for the thousand of New Yorkers who can pay $63,000 a year and it doesn’t make a dent in their finances.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait what’s up with wealthy families on FA, can someone explain??

#Iykyk

Well we don't, so inform us

So many assets and ways to inflate and deflate numbers

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What a moronic thread. Navel-gazing at some private NYC school? Why?

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Anonymous wrote:This is so good to see. Eat your heart out, Big 3! You’re not that special.

It’s not news that the private schools that send most students to Ivy League are in NYC or New England with some in CA. So what?

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Anonymous wrote:feel bad for the three kids who went to SUNY Albany - not that it’s a bad school, it’s actually my hubbies alma mater - but a bit counter intuitive to frivolously spend $60k+ a year on one of the most exclusive private high schools in the country and then attend ur mid tier state school

Maybe they’re Prep for Prep or got into a BA-MD program. Plenty of reasons a kid could end end up there.

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Anonymous wrote:What a moronic thread. Navel-gazing at some private NYC school? Why?

The obsession with NYC schools here is so bizarre.

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When I went to HM out of my graduating class of 123 63 kids went to an Ivy. I guess those were the glory days. And that was without buying your way in.

Now it’s all giving/board members/etc.

NYC vs DC is no comparison. The wealth is no comparison. The pull-connections are no comparison. The legacies might be somewhat comparable. The only thing that’s the same is the price tag of the private.