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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn’t you want your kid to attend school with a mix of old-money blue bloods, the well-connected, super-duper smarties, the already well-accomplished, and a few under-privileged kids who may not come in with the tip top creds but are likely to thrive?  Seems like a good mix. Fact is, a few unhooked kids do  get into these schools and that they are surrounded by the mix described above is certainly to their advantage versus one based on hard metrics alone.

Of course it’s all academic if your unhooked kid is dinged, but I reason that the experience of the unhooked admits is no less a valid consideration than the unfortunate many rejects. I mean, if you manage to get in, you kind of  want Harvard to be, well…“Harvard,” bastion of elite privilege and all, right? Why else are we dying to get in?

Sorry, but if my unhooked kids got into Harvard (fat chance), you better believe I want them to have well-connected old money peers!  New money peers are great too!  Fellow unhooked students are fine, but they aren’t really doing much for my kids.

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Not going to be chumming around with others outside their class.  Sorry.  It so not like that with a few exceptions.[/quote]

It can be hard on kids self esteem when they realize that there are much smarter and much richer people than they knew in HS. We know a HS valedictorian that was transformed at Harvard. I think it shocked him that it was a struggle. He went from being a big fish in a small pond, to being a guppy in a shark tank. He came out more humble, but more insecure.[/quote]

unless you are the smartest or the richest, there is always someone better.  Welcome to life at the top and bottom.[/quote]

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