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When a school tells you time and time again that you are the best of the best, that you are cream of the crop, you start to get a big head.  Just like when a parent tells their kid the same thing, the kid gets a big head and is not likable.  I have seen that, yes.

What insecurities are you referring to?

Everything we say here is a generalization.  People make generalizations all the time.  It's how we have a frame of reference and make judgement calls.  I'm sure you've done it once or twice in your life.[/quote]

Seriously? Ivies don't "tell you time and time again that you are the best of the best."  Do you really think the deans get up there in front of incoming freshman and make speeches like that, with recaps once a year for the next three years?  No, the speeches from Ivy administrations and profs to students are all about your responsibilities to take advantage of the educational opportunities and hopefully use them for the societal good. That was my experience and is now DC's experience.

Perhaps you are referring to kids' own perceptions that getting in means they are the cream, instead of the truth which is that they basically won a lottery. In that case, it's failed parenting.[/quote]

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