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[quote=Anonymous]"Anonymous wrote:
Parents of slacker kids love to cling to the delusional outlook that their low-achieving kids are sooooo charismatic when one, they're almost always not, and two, there are plenty of kids who are both charismatic AND high-achieving. What a sad, retrograde and ignorant outlook on not only professional recruiting but life in general to suggest being lazy somehow implies a superior personality. The opposite is almost always true; competitive, high-achieving kids put much more time into polishing their appearance and soft skills. There are too many honors students at top colleges vying for good internship and job offers—there is no point in wasting time entertaining low-achieving kids."

To whoever printed the above words. Steve Jobs mother if she was still alive would completely disagree.  Or the chef that owns Rose's Luxury Restaurant in DC, his mother would not agree.

Oh please ,"top kids vying for good internships & job offers"
 
Neighbors kids Stanford 4.0 gpa International Relations major, Fulbright scholar, took years to find "a job" has been out of school for few years. Interviewing not her thing, ie administrative assistant. Her sibling went to an extremely small school loved playing video games not great grades. Think 2.1 gpa.  Doing perfectly fine at his job with Google. By the way his school you would never have considered for your perfect kids.

Your post is ridiculous. Seriously, college is college it's what you do with your career is what makes you.  Do some colleges have better connections, yes of course.  Can a kid go to a school and make it without those. Totally. Especially in IT...

Go online check out companies your DC might want to work for and look at the bio's of the CEO's or CTO's their college educations are from all over not all IVY league.

Can your kid hold a job? Can they learn at their job? Can they write a decent email? Those are life skills, college is just a holding place...

C's get degrees. Your diploma from Yale or Harvard or Michigan or UVA is the same as the person sitting next to you with the 4.0 gpa. Would I have my kids strive for C's of course not, but some are not great test takers. It happens. [/quote]

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