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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in such a competitive "hothouse" environment when it came to going to top colleges that as an eventual parent I got truly shocked to find out how many people either just don't care about it or their kids just go pretty much "anywhere" ... places like lesser state campuses that out-of-state people have never even heard of and no one even takes time to rank.

Wealthiest classmate I had who just donated a $15m building to my prep school sent both her kids to places exactly like that. They were either sub intellects or maybe they're just too rich to care.

The whole game seems different today[/quote]

The wealthy person game you are describing is the same was it ever was. 
They go wherever and do whatever because they have a huge safety net (wealth, trust fund allowance, can go work for Daddy, etc.).
And no, wealthy avg intelligence families don’t hot-house their kids.

Hot-housing is for striver families, intrinsically motivated kids, or extreme right tail talent who is going for it. [/quote]

The whole thing about striver families is interesting

Both my in-laws attended ND, but they made it a freaking mission to send all their kids to Ivy League schools and they did, 6/7 (1980s). The last one they tried to get into ND. There’s a whole story about that … my MIL said “the admissions committee called us and apologized but they had to take a black girl instead” (update: don’t talk to those in-laws anymore for years for lots of reasons, but also that one)

My wealthy stepdad was OG from a poor Brooklyn Jewish family with 6 boys, every single one of them went to Columbia first and if they didn’t stay on there, they went to Harvard. Did not work out exactly that way for most of their kids. It was like some of them actually somehow even tried not to be academically successful because they were so sick of the pressure.

All my kids have already been through college at this point so it’s a moot discussion for me personally, but interesting nonetheless[/quote]

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