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if you can get a quality education at pretty much any top 100 school ... [t]hen why oh why are kids (and parents) putting themselves through so much stress and anxiety to get into HYPSM? ... Is it purely because Harvard and Yale are more prestigious?[/quote]

I am a bad parent, raising fat, spoiled, entitled, stupid, undisciplined kids.  At the right schools, my kids will have friends whose parents are business executives with connections.  Their friends will tell them about summer internships and other opportunities.  If I pay for study-abroad, yacht vacations, and a New York city apartment, then my kids' academic social circles can leverage a low-paid but prestigious internship into a decent career.  They won't need to be smart or work hard at Yale, where 80% of grades are A's or A-minuses!

Think about it.  An A-student from Yale sounds impressive, doesn't it?  Surely this will get my kids into an easy masters program at Columbia or Georgetown.  Nobody flunks out of top law schools either.  My daughters can marry a classmate, and my sons can work a soul-sucking investment banking job or hustle in sales.  This will compensate for my failures as a parent.[/quote]

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