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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think kids need to go to top schools to succeed, but realize that is my white privilege talking. If I were the parent of a student of color, you bet your ass I would be seeking the absolute most prestigious school my kid could get in to. The idea that a kid will do well where ever they go may be true, and I think it is true!, for middle class white kids, but I don't think it holds for kids of color, or kids whose parents are poor. [/quote]

Sad, but true. [/quote]

I used to think exactly this.  Now I think it but with a major qualification, which is that I would seriously consider HBCUs and I also would avoid going to colleges where I will constantly feel like I don't measure up.  Connections are important but so is self confidence.

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Yeah. I remember reading somewhere that Michelle Obama doesn’t have a lot of love for Princeton. I think it was a sucky place to be as a woman of color in the 1980s. And probably even now![/quote]

I don't know whether she enjoyed Princeton, and I don't know whether she occasionally had doubts about her own abilities, but she clearly was an above average student there.  She ended up at Harvard Law.  And from there she went to a top Chicago firm and then to a top in-house job.  Overall she's an example of choosing to go to a very pressured environment and coming out ahead.

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Absolutely - she of course excelled, but I'm just agreeing with the PP who said maybe choosing a friendlier HBC might be a better option sometimes. I know that it sucks to feel like you don't measure up - I felt like that at grad school until about halfway through and I wish I'd gone to a lower-ranked place where my confidence didn't take such a hit at first. [/quote]

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