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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking back, one of my biggest regrets/missteps as a parent was putting way too much pressure on my kids to excel in school with the goal of getting into top colleges.  The pressure worked, and they did do well and go "name brand," but fast forward a few years and it really didn't make much of a difference.  They're all happy and successful, but so are their friends who didn't do as well as they did and didn't end up at top schools.  Time is proving to be the great equalizer.

Just something for parents to keep in mind when they're still in the midst of things.  I realize I'm probably preaching to the wrong crowd.[/quote]

You are preaching to the wrong crowd because there are plenty of folks here who DID attend the top schools and know first hand the myriad advantages to having done so.

Also as you have clearly not attended a top school yourself, your children are also less likely to do so because the apple does not fall far from the tree. Despite the occasional genius outlier, it ain't happening for you regardless of the pressure you did or did not put on your kids.

Now stop wasting everyone's time and go away.[/quote]

+1. I attended a top school. The main advantage is that you never have to work hard again. All the great opportunities just show up because of who you know.

IME, it’s generally white people who say the stuff OP says, and that’s because they don’t recognize their white privilege. Yes, if you’re white, it doesn’t matter which school you go to, because all the doors are open to you already. If you’re non-white, going to a top school makes you aware of the kind of life white people enjoy as their birthright.[/quote]

Most white people did not attend elite colleges . In fact they did not graduate from college. You are in a bubble that you think everyone else white shares...but you are wrong. Read Hillbilly Eulogy, and get back to me.
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Exactly. On this forum white people are equated with success and being educated. Meanwhile the average white woman in American only makes $45,000 and don’t even have a bachelors degree.[/quote]

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