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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the real message is that HYPSM have completely ruined a fair number of our brightest kids. Any bright kids who are taking that BS seriously and trying to twist themselves into pretzels to please those schools probably have ended up with serious problems that’ll take generations to analyze. Our nation may perish because our brightest kids are more into checking boxes than actually doing anything of value. [/quote]

And the evidence you base this opinion on comes from where, exactly?

My guess is you made it up to suit your narrative.  [/quote]

Of course it’s a made-up narrative.  PP is trying so hard to convince herself she doesn’t want what she apparently can’t have. [/quote]

You can tell people repeatedly that no, you're not jealous, but they will keep insisting that the thing they have is what you want. This is, perhaps, human nature.

I went to a public magnet school with a graduating class of 30. I've lost track of the exact count, but I think we had 2 to Yale, 2 to Princeton, 1 to brown, and a whole mess to Penn. 5 or 6. So a third of my cohort went to ivies. The rest to schools like Oberlin, Chicago, Duke. Penn State. Howard. Etc.

The ivy grads have not been spectacular success stories. One is a professor at at public college. A few are lawyers. A few are unemployed housewives. No one cured cancer, or invented Wikipedia, or even went to med school. These were brilliant, brilliant kids. And nothing. [/quote]

Curious about the stories behind the ivy educated housewives. They must be some success stories as they apparently married to rich men. :lol:

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