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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.

What you have here with this scandal & on striver websites like College Confidential -- are rich people who have literally run out of things to spend their money on & unfulfilled busybody striver parents who are living through their kids, respectively.

Plenty of rich, connected, super smart kids at flagship universities and LACs.[/quote]
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I love how striving has become a dirty word these days.  The rich and connected can't abide by anyone else trying to do better, so they denigrate them as 'strivers'[/b].  Only those who are already rich and connected evidently deserve to be rich and connected.

If you're rich and connected and your kid is at a flagship university or LAC, it's mostly likely because they AREN'T super smart.  They're coasting on being rich and connected.

You can disdain elite colleges if you like (although it all comes across as sour grapes mostly), but this is the ultimate elitist and un-American attitude.[/quote]

Definitely not how I interpret it.  I always thought "striver" in the context you're describing denoted someone who doesn't WANT to be rich by starting a company or making investments or whatever, but wants to be SEEN as rich by ... actual rich (old money / classy / DCUM's newest euphemism) people.  So dressing in a certain way, trying to speak a certain way, but NOT actually having the assets to back it up.  Big hat, no cattle and all that.[/quote]

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