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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read the article. The title is click bait.

After reading it, you will see it actually [b]makes the case for having to attend an elite school.
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Oh, and by the way,[b] many of us who have kids at an Ivy were not Tiger moms. We didn’t pay for private counselors or tutors. We weren't gunning for Ivies at a young age. [/b] My kid didn’t even consider them until December of Senior year. The grades and scores were unprepped. He had a job and played a sport.

We actually got out of the rat race and he wasn’t even in GT in elementary which was reserved for the kids whose parents thought they were geniuses and lobbied the principal or donated $$$$.

Ironically, [b]none of the ultimate Tiger moms in our hood had kids accepted to an Ivy[/b].  They can see through the BS. [/quote]

+ a million. True of my ivy kids, their friends there(most of whom are on at least some financial aid), and other students from the high school who landed there. Attending Ivy/+ schools offers a boost going forward, this and many articles &experts acknowledge it, thus making elite schools permanently in demand. The tiger mom over-prepped and tutored kids who come from extraordinary wealth all ended up shut out of all top 20s, and are at SMU, W&L, Colby, Bucknell...and a few at UVA in state.
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So these two people are saying their kids are there because of merit? And the families are not in the top 10 percent income wise?[/quote]

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