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[quote=Anonymous]This DCUM blog post is incorrect. The bolded was not the takeaway at all. The takeaway 10 years later is that the smartest and most ambitious teenagers go to college anywhere and they will be successful because they seem to have the brainpower, motivation, competitive spirit and ambition to be successful. It is pushing back—with a decade of firsthand insights—on a DCUM striver obsession that your teen has to go to an elite T20 university or they are doomed.

[quote]The final thread that I will discuss today was posted in the "College and University Discussion" forum. Titled, "It's been 10 years since our oldest graduated from high school. The most successful are", this poster did the old "continue the topic into the body of the post" routine. The completion of the subject line was a statement that the most successful students in high school turned out to be the most successful adults, regardless of the caliber of the university they attended. If stretching the topic into the body of the text was not enough to irritate me about this post, the tone of the post certainly did it. Just about everything in this post bothered me, from the condescending attitude to the know-it-all posture demonstrated by the original poster. [b]The original poster's conclusion, based on who knows how big of a sample size, is that top high school kids will be successful no matter what and middle of the road high school kids are doomed to a life of mediocrity, regardless of where they go to college.[/b] The original poster warns so-called "tiger moms" that their efforts to get their loser kids into top schools will be futile. Even if they succeed, it will be of no help. Their children will still be no more than mildly successful. The original poster judges "success" by the quality of jobs obtained and marriage. Getting married directly out of college is highly esteemed by the original poster. Needless to say, many of those responding take issue with the original poster. They question the breadth of her knowledge of "success rates" and whether she is familiar with enough students to come to her conclusions. The type of tracking of others that is suggested by the original poster is considered a bit weird even if it were done on a small scale, let alone for a large number of students. Posters especially take issue with the original poster's insistence that marriage is a key indicator of success. Posters go on tangents addressing various factors related to marriage. When some posters questioned whether marriage at the fairly young age the original poster applauds is actually very common, the original poster provided examples of two celebrity children. Personally, I am suspicious that the original poster is on the up and up. This familiarity with celebrity children and other aspects of her posts suggest that, rather than being a parent, she is a student and that some of her analysis might actually be wishful thinking. At any rate, a number of posters disagree with her overall point and have a number of examples of less than excellent high schoolers blooming in college and exceeding expectations. Overall, this is a pretty disappointing thread that, frankly, is really not worth anyone's time to read.[/quote][/quote]

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