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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As I said upthread, this thread is revealing a lot of people who grew up well-off enough to think they were entitled to the best school they could get into and are horrified to discover they have to be rich themselves to give their kids that same reality. Those of us who didn't grow up rich aren't shocked by this reality. [/quote]

You call it entitlement, others see it as frustration. Something that was affordable, or more affordable, to one generation is far less so for the next generation, is what causes frustration and it has nothing to do with entitlement.

Frankly, all this sneering of entitlement and privilege is only childish. You sneer at people complaining expensive private colleges aren't affordable anymore and call it entitlement, while ignoring that public/cheaper colleges are also even less affordable for the next income brackets down. So everyone is losing out one way or another, except the rich and the smart poor who figure out the system.

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They were never affordable, is the point.

Listen. I grew up in a community where n[b]o one got to go to an Ivy[/b]. It did not matter how smart or hardworking they were. The #1 kid at any high school in my area with a 35 on the ACT and sports and work and volunteering did not get to go. No one went, period. I didn't think that the best kids went to Ivys, I thought "coastal elites" did. It's clear from this thread that those coastal elites thought they should get to go because they earned their spot, not because their parents could buy them their spot, and are mad that they can't also buy their kids a spot. Sorry, expensive stuff is expensive. [/quote]

And I grew up in a community where high performers did get to go to Ivy League schools. They also went to places like William, Amherst, and Bowdoin.  When I graduated from high school in 1980, we all worked summer jobs in restaurants, at the swimming pool, etc., and our summer earnings made a significant dent in the expenses of our private colleges.  Most of us took out student loans, but they were negligible relative to the overall cost.

I grew up in Massachusetts in a very mixed income town. We were definitely not “coastal elites,“ but we were aware of the differences among various schools and what it took to get in and pay for them.

At that time, the mantra was, “if you can get into a given school, there will be a way to pay for it.“ That is just no longer the case. That is what people are frustrated by. It has nothing to do with entitlement, it is frustration at the way that our society seems to have evolved into another gilded age, following an era in which we could all work hard, apply to, and enjoy the benefits of an education at elite institutions.[/quote]

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