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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not seen one bit if strives hate. None. 
I think this is a troll. [/quote]
Maybe irl they hide it, but on this forum, there are people who hate on strivers, whatever that means.[/quote]

I hate on strivers. It’s the guy who runs for student council secretary only because it’s unopposed. It’s the one who takes a course with juniors rather than AP because the GPA boost is the same. It’s the person who sabotages lab work but is never caught in the act. It may or may not be someone with talent, but it is someone insecure and unscrupulous. They exist we have all dealt with them, they don’t disappear senior year.[/quote]

If this is what you all mean by striver then they were rare at my kids private...and none of them ended up at ivies. The teachers did see right through them and they never got teacher-voted awards or asked to lead school sponsored research projects. Everyone knew who these kids were but thankfully they were rare. They are even more rare at ivies. Ivies are a lot of super nerdy, love-learning collaborative kids who tend to overfill their schedules because they want to do all the things.
 They attend different schools, two completely different interests(Poetry/math minor, premed Engineeirng), and their experience has been similar-- lots of hard work and groups who love to go to the library or form study groups, fear of "failure" then learning to accept a B here and there, with collaboration on psets and very rare slackers. No sabotaging, but the group-work slackers get peer feedback pretty quickly to step it up. Faculty even call out people who miss class/lab or when the section does worse than expected on a midterm. The expectations are high and there is no backdoor to success.[/quote]

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