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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can parents who are really bummed at a rejection from an Ivy or UChicago or MIT help me understand why this is such a big deal?  Surely you all work with people from a variety of educational backgrounds who have been super successful, and surely most of you have graduate degrees and have seen that those degrees matter more than your undergrad.

Is there some specific career track or life plan that's spoiled by this setback?[/quote]

No.  Of course not.  But these schools are in a position to offer significant financial assistance because of their wealth.  For some families, if they can actually get their student in, they could in fact accept the offer.  Alternative might be having to decline an offer from an elite but less generous institution due to affordability.[/quote]

This is a thread about "Big 3" students not getting in. Virtually all Big 3 students are not qualifying for any financial assistance because their families are welathy. [/quote]

People who have no contact with the Big 3 community love to perpetuate the stereotype that they are full of blonde-haired blue-eyed Biffs and Muffys wearing designer clothes and driving $50k+ cars. Sure, such kids exist there, but they are a small minority. Most of the kids there are indistinguishable from those at a W school or Langley or McLean, and some are even kids with a single parent who is not so well off but getting significant aid. [/quote]

Wait a minute. I thought the students at privates are all so much more fabulous and wonderful. Now you are saying they are just like kids at public schools?  Bite your tongue!  These kids are the best of the best.  Why would they be at their magical schools if they weren’t? How did they get there if they are indistinguishable from the hoi polloi?  [/quote]

Exactly.  Lots of hypocrisy going on here.[/quote]

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