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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People care a ton about where your kids go to school.  Especially, among parents who are highly educated and have lots of time on their hands…is it not PC to say housewives?[/quote]

I do remember going to dinner with a double ivy couple (ug, law for both) along with our kids right after decisions came out and the couple clearly could not get over how our DC got into a Big 3 K and their kid was WLed everywhere. "Just how did that happen?" was the refrain of the evening. Both DH and I had gone to an Ivy for grad and had interesting careers, but clearly our less than prestigious undergrads - at least mine - should have ruled our DC ineligible for consideration. [/quote]

Wow. How did keep from choking on your food throughout dinner?![/quote]
Plus 1! They sound pretty awful.
I also went to a “less than prestigious” university because I hardly ever went to class or studied my last two years of HS due to being bored and not in the right environment. I tested really well so that helped get me into college in a top 40ish school. I went to grad school at a top 20. My kids are both highly intellectually able(objectively speaking) and doing really well, both at Big 3, and it’s really funny how threatened people who went to an Ivy can be when their own kids have issues or aren’t as smart as they think they (all) are. To be fair some of the private admissions results are pure luck past a certain point, especially for highly qualified upper school applicants, but I think it’s telling how people define themselves and others by how hard they worked in school 30 years ago, or more. Where you went to college in 1993 doesn’t mean squat now. A kid working as hard as they did then will likely not get in these days. And where one went to college has nothing to do with where their kids will get into private. (Sorry for typos)[/quote]

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