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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I sort of think you're right but I was also raised with a lot of those kids who automatically got into Ivy League schools and barely had to try

I can think of one prep school classmate whom I roomed with on a few international school vacation trips who was basically forced into going to my dream 1st choice college by her father. Old 1600s New York Gilded Age quality Dutch surname. Somewhere during freshman year, though, she turned 18 and came into a trust fund outside of his control. She applied on her own to a 7 sisters school and transferred. And she hated her dad so much she actually legally changed her last name.

I just got recently surprised that a fellow classmate's kid who probably could have been admitted anywhere to a university with his name on the buildings is at a SUNY I'd never heard of. And I grew up in New York state.

[/quote]Once upon a time Ivies weren’t academically exclusive, they were the just the only colleges around and only rich people went to college. It took a few generations to fully transition to the current hothouse model. You (and I) went to school in the crossover period. [/quote]

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