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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I’ll give my perspective. The future is only getting worse and wealth disparities are only getting more extreme. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living and inflation. UMC isn’t what it used to be, and even people making HHI in the top 20% feel strapped — that’s why you see so many people on here complain that there HHI of $250k “feels poor.”

I want my kids to be in the 1%. And to do that, the most sure fire way is to go to an Ivy (or Stanford/Duke/MIT), get a high GPA in a quantitative major (so no English majors in our household!), and graduate to make a ton of money in tech or finance. [/quote]

I think this is the real reason why. Ivy obsession in this area is mainly from the UMC who want to launch their kids into the 1%. [/quote]

And getting back to the original post, THEY ARE MISTAKEN about needing an elite college in order to do this. If the kid is a superstar, they're one regardless of the college they attend! Why are so many people willing to attribute their success to their alma mater instead of to their own superior abilities?[/quote]

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