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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the problem stems from the fact that top schools don’t really have “different” kids anymore, in the sense that to get in all of these non-hooked kids have long since become conformist and uniform in their supposed “exceptionality”: they forewent sleep throughout high school, spent all of their time on hoop-jumping activities and accomplishments, are overwhelmingly Type-A, and have long since developed sharp elbows to secure “leadership” positions in clubs or anything else they are continuously plotting to be involved in. Put them all together in a college, and it sounds like the pits of Dante’s Inferno to me. [/quote]

Huh? Do you base this on anything tangible? At the ones my kid toured and the one she chose, it seems the exact opposite.  They have an array of kids who really excel in different areas and are deep thinkers. Sure, not everyone, there may be a some Chets knocking around (sorry kids named Chet). Mine is meeting some really interesting people. She does invest in her classes and her art and is social but not into party culture and likes it that way. The students largely seem interested in their academic experience,  not elbowing ahead or one more accolade.

But, every school is different,  and some do have a more competitive culture. Still, nothing seems to suggest conformist or uniform or hoop jumping.

This just sounds kind of like sour grapes really.[/quote]

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