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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a sense of entitlement, OP.  You think nobody else's kid is accomplished?  There are thousands of kids with similar stats and it is a reach for all of them.  Your child is obviously very accomplished and will succeed whether he hits the Ivy lottery or not.[/quote]

Correction - legacy admissions that are not based on such excellent stats are the ones with the unearned  sense of entitlement. It is the elitist manipulation of the educational system, that gives us grossly under qualified people like Trump in the WH.  Or maybe merit no longer matters.

For the non-legacy,  non-hook, people with the excellent stats? it's just a lament on an anon board. [/quote]

I'm the one you quoted.  I agree that legacy admissions are the height of entitlement.  However, OP seems to think great grades and test scores entitles one to Ivy when it does not.  There are not enough Ivy seats to go around for all of the kids like that.  It's the baseline (unless you have some other hook) and they are looking for more.  It's the same story for all of our kids.  That's life.[/quote]

Private university slots are not paid for by public funds or held to some objective metric that you have voted on that has a checkbox of "deserves X, so you can be forced to give him X." They are private institutions with their own goals and plans. They do not belong to you. You are not in charge of them.

If that is the way you want it to work, you have to start and fund your own. But they have gotten the reputation they have for making their own decisions, not just the decisions that people who feel they deserve to be in charge have wanted them to make.

And yes, it is not extraordinarily special to a highest tier university that your child has this list of accomplishments. That is normal for their applicants. Your child is, of course, special to you. He or she does not have to be special to a university for that.[/quote]

THIS...your children aren't owed anything, and they aren't being "cheated"...

I went to an Ivy, and this idea that they are filled with brilliant kids, and the collaborative learning process is a mind meld of genius level students all elevating each other is absolute nonsense...LMAO

You have dumb kids at Ivies...kids who test well (or took hours upon hours of rigorous test prep courses to help them test well), kids who peaked in high school, druggies, smart kids, average kids, loners, losers, popular kids, athletes, frat boys, a sprinkling of minorities...and a good amount of legacy kids.

The reason for admitting legacy kids is one of self preservation for the institutions, because those families are MUCH more likely to consistently give back to the schools and support their existence if a string of the members of their family went there.

The reason for admitting everyone else is because college is supposed to be...FUN...and a collection of geeks isn't fun...nor is it at all representative of the actual world that the graduates will face...[/quote]

The reason for admitting [b]entitled white kids[/b] is because college is supposed to be...FUN...and a collection of geeks isn't fun...nor is it at all representative of the actual world that the graduates will face...

Fixed that for you.  [/quote]

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