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1. I agree entirely.

2. The Ivy League troll is still active and their stories are false: it's always a disappointed parent with a child at an Ivy who is either miserable and depressed, or about to drop out. Please report them to Jeff.

3. The "hothoused child" who has been built from scratch by Tiger Parents is a myth that needs to die. It is not possible to do that without the child's buy-in. Any child would rebel! The children who are intelligent and functional enough to go to an Ivy, and are prepared by their parents to that end, usually do very well there! BECAUSE they're prepared. My husband tends to be an Asian Tiger Parent, and we know many Asian Tiger Parents. The children are all well-adjusted and ready for any college.

4. The only person who ever told me that the Ivy League wasn't worth it was a middle-aged Indian-American first gen who felt discriminated against at Harvard during her student days there - she said she was made to feel less than the wealthy white Americans who referenced a world she was not part of. I listened politely, but as a multi-racial person who has lived in several countries, in sometimes rather snobby and xenophobic ones, I thought that this should not stop non-whites from applying... quite the contrary!

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