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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To build on black parent's snark - he/she is somewhat right.  White/Asian unhooked students are chosen for the number of hoops they are willing to jump through.  After they enter the selective college, somehow they must decompress and lose that mentality, or they won't be enter the top echelon of society, which is what the top schools give you an option for.  I suspect this is part of the reason private school students do better.  Generational wealth allowed them to achieve without grovelling.

Not sure what the solution is, but I have been seeing this problem for a while.[/quote]

Your point assumes the problem.  Who says they need to decompress or lose any mentality?  It's a ridiculous stereotype that kids with achievements are necessarily drones or sheep.  They simply aren't.  This (and the accompanying racist meme that Asian kids are robots) are just the excuse you make when some kids does better than yours.  "Oh well, they must be a drone/robot/sheep."  It's pathetic.[/quote]

Sure there are lots of kids for whom these achievements come naturally.  But there are also lots of kids who are following an algorithm, pushing themselves to unhealthy extremes, and doing contrived things (starting a nonprofit/business--this was not a thing a generation ago!) to get into an Ivy and it seems disingenuous.  [/quote]

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