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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are people even arguing about? People have different priorities when it comes to picking a college. Why is this a shocking or bad thing? Do you want everyone to value the same things and hence apply to the same schools as your kid? Denigrating other people's priorities is pointless. [/quote]

Somebody really needed to bust out Aesop's Fables to suggest Ivy wannabes are just jealous.

Btw the point of the Medium post is that the Fox can truly be happy with some other fruit after going on his merry way.  Not being able to snag some particular bunch of grapes is hardly a life crisis.[/quote]

If you think that is the moral of the story then you fail.[/quote]

Nope. Sorry.  I reject your world view and your crappy fable.[/quote]

It's not my fable.  It's Aesop, a cornerstone of western literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop

They can teach about this at lots of schools, crappy dorms and all.[/quote]

PP. I'm well aware of Aesop.  I mentioned this in my original response. I didn't go to any of the schools namechecked, whether the dorms were crappy or fancy.  No need to cover Aesop's Fables in college.  Already covered in elementary school. I find your namechecking and presentation of the fable rather smug. (I noticed you copy-pasted a huge fraction of it, rather than type it out from your classically-educated, ancient world bardic memory).  I continue to object to your world view that sour grapes are what's causing people to complain about poor conditions at expensive schools.  I correct my post to read "your smug presentation of a fable."

For the record, the first time I ran across a semi-permanent colony of feral housecats was on the north side of Georgetown U's campus.  My bf rented a space in a room in a Burleith slumlord's ratty townhouse.  It recently became a $1M to-the-studs teardown.  I know exactly what these complainers are talking about.  I've also been in parts of Ivy campuses that failed to wow or were old/dirty/broken down.  Completely factual.  No fable.

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So don’t send your kids there.  See how easy?  Why complain publicly about it unless sour grapes?

Thanks for correcting your previous post.[/quote]

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