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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t tell if this is a conserva-troll just using this post to slam Ivys and liberal arts majors, or not.
If so: my response is “send your kid to Hillsdale.  Their job prospects will go way way way down… unless they want a conservative affirmative action job paid by billionaires. Charles Koch is always hiring ideologues.”

If not, my response is: What do you call a Princeton grad with a low GPA who worked their junior summer as a camp counselor?  “A Princeton grad.”
Your kid will be fine. They should commit themselves more to school, but don’t sweat it.[/quote]

Respectfully, this is off the mark. It's humiliating and demoralizing to be an [ELITE college] grad and frankly be kicked off the high flier track and land at a crummy 9 to 5 working along side state school midwits who've coasted through life. Your parents are humiliated when discussing your career with their friends, you're humiliated working with idiots, and you're demoralized further because your college social circle is full of high fliers [you'll constantly be reminded of their ascent on social media and LinkedIn for the rest of your life]. Further, there will certainly be a handful of high school peers who went to inferior colleges who strike it rich in executive roles, as entrepreneurs, or in medicine, tech or law – and you're the "[ELITE college] high school classmate" who ended up a middle class schmuck.

I'm not exaggerating or being facetious.[/quote]

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