The Guide to WASP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who know SLAC’s in general tend to be among the highly intellectual crowd, not your garden variety DMV dummy. Grad schools and employers also know these colleges to have excellent reputations. IYKYK.

They can feel your sneer all the way over in West Virginia.

For us it is analogous to our boarding school choice. We could have chosen Andover or Exeter, but chose Groton. We have one child who wanted (and got) HYP and one who wanted (and got) Williams.
If you know you know, and if you don't, maybe its for the better. Live and let live and who cares if people don't know where your kid goes to school, its their story to tell, not yours.

You have a lot to learn about building a family legacy if you think kids just run off to "tell their story".

[Anonymous]

W: Tons of athletes but everyone gets along
A: Tons of athletes vs. everybody else
S: Less athletes but STEM vs. everybody else
P: Less athletes and a bad-air-quality heaven for all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:W: Tons of athletes but everyone gets along
A: Tons of athletes vs. everybody else
S: Less athletes but STEM vs. everybody else
P: Less athletes and a bad-air-quality heaven for all

Due to fires?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours declined due to high cost of attendance as full pay but I liked Amherst very much other than few things like harsh weather, athlete-non athlete divide, lack of eating out options, gay-straight divide and racial divide at Amherst. Obviously hard to judge in single short visit but that's the impression I had.

None of these problems you listed exist at Pomona, except high costs and more selectivity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who know SLAC’s in general tend to be among the highly intellectual crowd, not your garden variety DMV dummy. Grad schools and employers also know these colleges to have excellent reputations. IYKYK.

They can feel your sneer all the way over in West Virginia.

For us it is analogous to our boarding school choice. We could have chosen Andover or Exeter, but chose Groton. We have one child who wanted (and got) HYP and one who wanted (and got) Williams.
If you know you know, and if you don't, maybe its for the better. Live and let live and who cares if people don't know where your kid goes to school, its their story to tell, not yours.

You have a lot to learn about building a family legacy if you think kids just run off to "tell their story".

I think the poster means “tell their story” as in it’s their life to live. Not literally telling a story. Don’t really understand your comment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:People who know SLAC’s in general tend to be among the highly intellectual crowd, not your garden variety DMV dummy. Grad schools and employers also know these colleges to have excellent reputations. IYKYK.

A awful lot of them tend to be monied parents with private school kids who think sending their kid to a SLAC is a good way to avoid questions about why their kid didn’t get into a top university. That’s hardly a highly intellectual decision.

My kid chose a WASP over Johns Hopkins- so try again…

My daughter’s best friend also chose Amherst over Johns Hopkins last spring. The kids were shocked but I thought it was a smart decision and great fit.

Shocked that the examples involve Johns Hopkins. Now try that with Yale.

My DC turned down Yale for Williams. Feel better now?

[Anonymous]

No california school could ever be top WASP, not when the New England schools still exist.

[Anonymous]

Here's a newsflash for the strivers: you cannot become a WASP. Either you were BORN into the old money American set, whose ancestors emigrated over from England, Scotland, Germany, and the Nordic countries in the 1600/1700/1800s, and joined various country clubs and got educated at boarding schools/Ivies. Or you weren't. There's no two ways about it. It's an ethnic group as well as cultural group, and there's no two ways about it. So why obsess over something you'll never be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No california school could ever be top WASP, not when the New England schools still exist.

This must be true if a grammatically challenged anonymous internet poster says so without any elaboration.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No california school could ever be top WASP, not when the New England schools still exist.

This must be true if a grammatically challenged anonymous internet poster says so without any elaboration.

It must be true if a striving Californian valley girls dreams it to be so. Yes, you'll totally be accepted at the top New England social clubs, despite the Irvine strip mall vibe you give off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am officially dumber for having read this.

And my kid's GPA makes the whole thing not worth reading anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's a newsflash for the strivers: you cannot become a WASP. Either you were BORN into the old money American set, whose ancestors emigrated over from England, Scotland, Germany, and the Nordic countries in the 1600/1700/1800s, and joined various country clubs and got educated at boarding schools/Ivies. Or you weren't. There's no two ways about it. It's an ethnic group as well as cultural group, and there's no two ways about it. So why obsess over something you'll never be?

Newsflash, the thread title's use of "WASP" is referring to an entirely different acronym.

[Anonymous]

Williams - No Socks
Amherst - Argyle Socks
Swarthmore - mismatched socks
Pomona - Bombas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No california school could ever be top WASP, not when the New England schools still exist.

This must be true if a grammatically challenged anonymous internet poster says so without any elaboration.

It must be true if a striving Californian valley girls dreams it to be so. Yes, you'll totally be accepted at the top New England social clubs, despite the Irvine strip mall vibe you give off.

If you wanna clap back, you should probably proofread your zinger before posting. Your consistent grammatical mistakes undercut your insinuations about social class.

Anyhow, I'm not in CA. It's just that distinguishing between any of the WASP schools in terms prestige or academic quality is as ridiculous as trying to finely parse out the prestige hierarchy of HYPSM. I suspect you know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No california school could ever be top WASP, not when the New England schools still exist.

This must be true if a grammatically challenged anonymous internet poster says so without any elaboration.

It must be true if a striving Californian valley girls dreams it to be so. Yes, you'll totally be accepted at the top New England social clubs, despite the Irvine strip mall vibe you give off.

If you wanna clap back, you should probably proofread your zinger before posting. Your consistent grammatical mistakes undercut your insinuations about social class.

Anyhow, I'm not in CA. It's just that distinguishing between any of the WASP schools in terms prestige or academic quality is as ridiculous as trying to finely parse out the prestige hierarchy of HYPSM. I suspect you know this.

There's no need to professionally proofread when you're on an informal message board. Maybe you think by nitpicking at perfectly normal grammatical simplifications you can seem somehow upscale, like you were educated at Choate? Sorry, but no amount of manner/pedantic harping is going to change what you are. You can keep LARPing all you want- the California freeway/strip mall childhood shines through.