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Maybe responsible parenting is acknowledging that while top schools are a stretch for everyone, it IS unfair that qualities outside of their control and baseless to achievement are getting prioritized over what should matter and thus impacting your child's results.  It's not fair and there is nothing we can do. 
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But parents on here aren't doing this.  They aren't sitting their kids down and saying "look you have so many unfair advantages outside of your control, that make it more likely that you, relative to the average child of color born on the same day in this country, will end up at these schools.  Statistics make that 100% clear."

They are telling their kids "every way that you are advantaged, and there are many of them, is "fair", and we will take advantage of them as much as possible.  the one way that you aren't advantaged as much as people like you in previous generations is unfair, and we will whine as loudly as we can about that. "

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Amen to this.  The sense of (likely-white) upper-class entitlement to ALLLL the seats at elite schools is astonishing.  Access to a seat at an Ivy league school is not something to which anyone's child is entitled.

News flash: your child's achievement is certainly influenced by their economic, class and race privilege. AND your child may well be very bright and have worked very hard as well. But they started off with far more advantages than the typical black or immigrant student.  Elite schools should let black and brown students attend.  You do realize that these elite schools used to blatantly discriminate against students of color and not admit them, right?  [/quote]

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