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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do know you can transfer - right? I do not feel bad for anyone who just whines and doesn't try to do anything about it. [/quote]

If you watch this kid’s YouTube video on where he got in, you will see he is the child of immigrants with a very low income. I don’t think transferring is easy for kids that are on large amounts of financial aid. He was a questbridge finalist or something, so under $65,000 HHI[/quote]

Wonder if part of his problem is meeting kids there who have immense family wealth and he’s being eaten up with jealousy. It’s one thing to know that billionaires exist, it’s another to meet one and think “why him and not me?”[/quote]

This is probably the most unlikely theory. [/quote]

DP: I don't think PP's wording--eaten up with jealousy--or even jealousy at all is right. But I remember being barely MC in a selective school and encountering UMC+ kids  and just being saddened by how people who could be so smart and nice in so many ways could have such a blithe cluelessness about how the world worked for the majority of people.  Just so many thoughtless remarks. I could see they weren't mean-spirited, just so wholly removed from how life is experienced by the vast majority of people in this country and on this planet.  I was doing fine academically and socially and this still felt like an almost existential issue to me sometimes: do I even want to be here with these people I am starting to care about who are so protected from so much of reality?  I can imagine how it would be if it were compounded by greater academic/social pressures.[/quote]

+1.  I think the people who dismiss this as a possibility are among the “blithe clueless.” [/quote]

So middle class American kids have great insights into how "the world works for the majority of people" lacking among their UMC and UC peers?  They may find it disorienting for a while to be around some wealthier kids but that doesn't exactly make them experts on the human condition.

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