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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To me, it is someone whose level of ambition and desire to compete is toxic. [b]It’s NOT that they’re trying for good grades, have a passion for leaning, or working hard. Instead, there is an arrogant, cutthroat and exclusionary aspect about their need to compete and win[/b]. I recall a poster who attended Harvard and mentioned that a half-dozen students seriously said they planned to be President some day. Ron DeSantis supposedly claimed the same. Imagine him as a student peer. Consider his aggressive and alienating policies, all for his own glory. Now, multiple that many fold. Some people don’t want to be around people like that, thus they hope to find a college culture that embraces rigorous learning without the a**hole qualities of a gunner.[/quote]

So, one must appreciate that there is a healthy level of ambition that lives between these two extremes.

Let's face it, the kids that just "try for good grades, have a passion for learning or working hard" end up doing nothing special in life.  There are ambitious kids that certainly do much more than this, but are not cutthroat and exclusionary.
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