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[quote=Anonymous]You can't have this conversation in the DMV because too many people here have internalized the idea that attending an Ivy or "top 20" school makes you an inherently better person. They are upset if their kids don't get into these schools because they think it means their kids are less than. And they blame the URMs and sometimes the athletes for "stealing" the spots they think should go to their children, but are less worried about the legacies and donor-class admits because, on some level, they truly believe those legacies/donor-class kids are more deserving of spots at those schools by virtue of that status.

When people have wholly bought into a value structure that says Harvard>State U, no matter what, you can't reason with them because they are blind to the ways in which this is not true. It doesn't matter what you say. This will never not feel unfair to them because they truly believe that admission to this short list of schools is the rubber stamp that marks you as a worthwhile person.[/quote]

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