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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it such a crime to want your child to get into a top school? Obviously “top” can mean different things, but whether it’s HYPSM or Ivies or even T50s, it shouldn’t be a horrible thing for parents to want their children to meet certain academic standards. It’s annoyed when people are attacked for wanting their kids to get a good education.

My hypothesis is that the people criticizing these parents are the parents of children who aren’t high-achieving enough to get into good schools. Otherwise, why does it matter to them so much?

Thoughts?[/quote]

IME it is people who did not get in who criticize. We know several . Applied to T30s then criticized them all after not in and bragged about commonplace “merit” to SMU or UT or Bama or whatever. These are people who can afford it and were not looking for merit, that’s often different .

There are some who just do not come from elite schools themselves (and have seen the resource differences in the supports to launch to top med and law), or top grad schools where over half are from T30s. They don’t know what they don’t know.

Signed a need-aid kid who went to a top school, know many others who were needy at the time. We all agree the path forward was well- paved by the opportunities and advantages of an elite undergrad experience. [/quote]

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