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[quote=Anonymous]People from my public school district who began at modest, third-tier local universities later won a Pulitzer Prize, completed degrees at Harvard, and had their work preserved in the Guggenheim Museum's collection and archives. After college, I briefly worked with someone who graduated from a third tier university who went on to win an Oscar (he changed careers). The salutatorian of my class died from brain cancer when she was 32—just a few years after finishing her medical residency. The valedictorian of the class ahead of me just died of a stroke a few weeks ago...he was 53. I have a hard time pushing my kids when this has been my lived experience. I’ve seen brilliance and achievement rewarded in unexpected ways, and I’ve also seen them snuffed out in an instant. And I’ve learned that even extraordinary, jaw-dropping levels of success don’t always begin with being an academic superstar in high school. [/quote]
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