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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people spewing the striver stuff are classist.  Ignore them.[/quote]

We live in a wealthy neighborhood and there definitely is a subset of snobby adult rich children who are very average/below average. I am sure these are the type of people who look down on people they call strivers. These rich adult kids are average looks, average academics, average everything and then marry someone just like them and then have average kids with rich grandparents who pay for their private schools. We are surrounded by these type of people.[/quote]

this! yes! I am a first gen white kid doctor married to a formerly poor white doc, both went to ivies, met at a top med school, ie all strivers there. Many of our ivy and med classmates were the generational wealth type, and many were like us: none of them ever looked down on fellow smart kids. It is a particular subset of wealthy who do this: namely the non-smart entitled ones. 
Our kids' private has tons of generational wealth entitled people who get mad when others do better. Our first is at an ivy no hooks--different ivy than ours. Our second is at a non-ivy top10, third has yet to apply. They are just really smart kids who work hard and are lucky we can afford a top school we did not get to go to. The uber rich parents in the private all have average kids. The kids are not in the top classes and they seem unaware that other kids are much smarter than theirs until they are told theirs have no chance at UVA in state. Suddenly the world is unfair because of all the "try-hards" who are pushing their kids out and there is always some favoritsm they presume. One even asked us if we donated a lot to the high school to get them the top academic awards., or called in a favor at the ivy. Uh not our ivy we do not know anyone to call, and it is not the 80s. Our $ is all in 529s for college or goes to our favorite local charity. These people are really out of touch. They get so annoyed when their money does not buy them top grades and their kids have to settle for fancy non-elite privates like SMU and Elon. [/quote]

Nobody’s getting denied from UVA and then having their parents call an Ivy League school to get in.

Omg why do you guys make this stuff up?[/quote] Reading comprehension. You and the PP are in agreement that calling someone at an Ivy to get in doesn't happen.[/quote]

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