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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, I'll bite... it's because it makes it obvious that getting into said school is not and is rarely based on merit.  So the fail-upwards spawn gets into the "highly selective" school because mom and dad funded a serenity park on the quad. Said spawn goes on to become senator because his/her parent's name carries a lot of weight in all the right circles; and those are just the more blatant types of pay to play...

Meanwhile the rest of our children are busting their butts, taking on summer jobs, volunteering, losing sleep over grades; watching mom and dad not take a vacation, in the hopes they get into that special school...

We know it's all a lie; there are genius children who never get a chance, because they don't have the resources.

Sadly, Senator Fail-Upwards will sponsor a bill criminalizing his fellow poorer citizens.

If only we could pull ourselves up with our bootstraps with a million dollar loan from mom and dad - think of all the casinos we could bankrupt...[/quote]

Who said it was about merit?[/quote]

Life is never strictly about "merit".  Wait until you get out of college and realize that you might be working for someone who went to state U (not even T100), graduated with a 2.8, and is now your 2nd level manager making 4x what you make.  Doesn't matter that you went to a T25 school, you report to people who didn't.  
Even better, wait until there are 5 of you on a team and the one who gets promoted or the best next project is Person A whose Mom is best friends with the VP 3 levels up.  They do decent work, but 3 of the 5 are better employees than them, yet they get the cushy position and projects and chances to advance more rapidly.  
It's life.  You can lament that it's not fair and focus on that or you can choose to work with what you are given and advance yourself accordingly 
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None of my ivy undergrad friends report to someone with these stats. We almost all are doctors, lawyers, research scientists, professors, VPs in top companies who work under or with similar level people, or started our own companies. Or some combination of the above. The one who is not is a teacher in private school where many of the other teachers and principal/admin went to T25/Top15 SLAC and are not less intelligent.
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