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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it only OP is allowed to state where her DD got in but the other parent is not? [/quote]

Because OP paid for private school.  She's better than public school parents and is annoyed that those lowly public school kids might have achievements similar to her kid.[/quote]

Your public school kids may get into the same colleges, but they will always lack the private school je ne sais quoi.[/quote]

It's called "I don't know what" because nobody's exactly sure what IT is or if it's possible to have more or less of IT.  But mainly IT comes down to good luck in life, confidence, and money.   Luck is influenceable but random, confidence can be learned and is free.  Having money is a fact.

So basically je sais what the quoi is.  It's being rich.  Private school = rich.

So, the post above kinda sums it up.  Your public school kids may get into the same colleges, but they'll never be rich.[/quote]

If a public school kid and a private school kid both end up at UVA...

The private school kid is going to get invited into a certain sorority or fraternity. They're going to be in different selective clubs. They're going to seek different internships. They're going to have different friends and dating pool. Why? Is all of this just totally random? No. It's their it factor opening doors. They're a member of the club, plus the certain soft skills, emotional IQ, confidence, swagger... the "aura" and "rizz" as kids say. Whatever "it" is, private kids have it. Even the dorky less social private kids have it.

So go ahead and celebrate that your kid clawed his or her way into the same college while you "saved" money sending them to a government K-12, but the fact is your kid is not on the same rung. And they never will be.[/quote]

NP. I was a public school kid from NoVa at UVA. My best friend, boyfriend, and the man who I would eventually marry were all private school kids, two of the three with hefty trust funds. I was a better student than all of them, I might add.

Watch it, you might end up with a DIL or SIL who went to public school someday![/quote]

PP.  Above post makes me laugh because I come from an Ivy,  Greek, and prep school family background but didn't choose that for myself.  And my kids aren't choosing it either, though they could.  And the richest trust fund kid I knew OD'd in his early 20s. And the others (some DMV private educated) are far less professionally successful than my family. You have to want that clubby rich lifestyle to feel hurt about not having it.  And some people are actively harmed by it.[/quote]

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