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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both will get in.

Kid B will have a hard time keeping up with Kid A.

Kid A's parent will get Kid A better summer internships.

Kid B will go home for the summer and flip burgers again.

Kid A may have better luck finding a prestige job after graduation.

Kid B will have some trouble getting foot in door but will eventually figure life out.

Kid A will repeat the high-cost, high-intensity parenting they were exposed to.  At some point Kid A and or their kid may need mental health meds.

Kid B will have a lower life earning trajectory but will be happier for being kept off a tread mill.  Kid B will employ a similar parenting style to parents.  As a result, their kid may need to drop down 1 level of college selectivity due to increased application pressure on tippy top schools.

There will be no DCUM by then.

The End![/quote]

I am LITERALLY Kid B above.  I had poor parents, but effortlessly aced high school and crushed the ACT and the LSAT.  However, after law school, while my classmates were recruited by BigLaw, I lacked the discipline or social capital to get anything but JD advantage jobs.  (I had to do contract doc review at a firm where several law school friends were associates.)

It took my almost 3 decades to get to $300,000, but I don't regret a thing.[/quote]

I’m so sad about this. Do you think you didn’t have enough FGLI support in college/law school? [/quote]

What is sad about this?  That PP didn’t start earning 300K straight out of law school?[/quote]

Yes. Like everyone else in class. Hopefully PP had no law school debt. Biglaw partner here who went to T3 firm upon graduation.

This goes to show you that even if you get to these places, all things are not equal.

And this is not the success story you think it is.

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Why do you get to judge what a success story is?  PP said they didn’t regret a thing. She sounds happy and successful to me.

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PPP here (who had to wait 30 years to break $300k, when my classmates did this (in 2024 dollars) in less than 7 years. 
I am happy, but financially much worse off than my classmates who probably have much larger retirement accounts.  Also, when my parents pass, I will get a funeral bill.  When my classmates' parents pass, they will get a 7 or 8 figure inheritance.  Growing up poor follows you all of your life (and I'm one of lucky ones).[/quote]

Let’s put this in perspective. How much are you worth right now?[/quote]

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