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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got sucked into the name/selectivity craziness of this board with my first child and they wisely blew me off and took a full ride to a school this board mocks.  Now DC is headed to an Ivy for grad school.  DC made the best choice and this board is toxic. [/quote]

So your kid blew you off and four years later has such raging Ivy envy they're immediately headed to an Ivy to add some prestige to their CV (and presumably go into some debt for it)? And you're such an insecure striver (while you claim you're not) you're on here bragging about the Ivy. Got it. If the kid had the prestige BA they probably wouldn't be so hard up for the Ivy MA. And no matter, there's no substitute for lacking an elite BA. MA programs are largely cash cow scams, for sale to anyone who wants to buy one; they don't confer what you think it confers. The mediocre BA will be on their CV for the rest of their life, they keep that same college social circle, dating pool and memories from their mediocre college campus. Trying to buy your way into that prestige orbit with an MA never works. Only sometimes works if you get into like elite of the elite, ex. Yale Law School.[/quote]

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