What's the book title and author? Thanks. |
https://www.mariannecooper.com/book It was a great read. Helped me change my perspective. |
Um no. Just look at acceptance rates for schools. Just look at the average GPAs and SATs at not just Ivys but many state schools. A very high GPA and SAT is the bare minimum to get in many places. Kids with incredible stats getting rejected left and right. |
Well, historically it has been true over several generations that the number of qualified applicants have been on the rise, acceptance rates have dropped, average stats have gone up. So it has been getting tougher. There may be a limit to this (one can hope) but we don’t seem to have hit it yet. |
This is beside the point but I went to UVA and both I and many of my peers went on to Ivy grad schools from there. One could do worse, and if you’re in-state, you get quite the deal. |
This is stupid. There are rich people who are miserable. Elon Musk has been married 3 times. Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates cheated on their wives. The rich are not necessarily happier. They just have more money. They have other issues. |
yes, but getting "incredible stats" is much easier. grade inflation is rampant. standardized tests have been recentered multiple times and it's much easier to achieve perfect scores. each student applies to many more colleges, driving down acceptance rates at every college. |
I am not saying it's not easier to get some of these stats but that means that your 4.5 GPA/1500 something SAT/excellent ECs student still has a very small chance of getting into a top state school or Ivy school. And I would say that the tippy top students are actually way ahead of students in the past. Unfortunately the bottom 90% or so have probably gotten worse. |
because there are so many of them now. many more have those scores, but they are easier to get (not about my kids - they will go to college abroad). |
Anyone who thinks UMC families are happier than MC families has never been poor.
Pretty soon there won’t be a middle class. |
Same with poor people. I would rather be rich and be cheated on than poor and be cheated on. |
There's a new study out throwing into question whether the panic over rising income inequality in the US is actually based on real data or not. The authors of the study say: not. https://davidsplinter.com/AutenSplinter-Tax_Data_and_Inequality.pdf |
No way! MC is now living paycheck to paycheck.
I'm in Falls Church and don't feel the competitiveness at all. I also have no tolerance for that sh&t so might be my choosing friend group. |
These days it's easier to get all As and the SAT is also easier than it was in our day. |
There are so many tippy top students these days that you can go to a top 75 school and still be surrounded by nothing by tippy top students. |