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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m in the peanut gallery watching several 1%ers in the college admissions process. It is INSANE. please folks get ahold of yourselves. Your super privileged kids are going to be fine. [/quote]

You realize that this forum is just a small subset of parents DC area and a few others? Most people I know aren't like the ones posting here.

I have a HS senior and find that this forum is occasionally helpful. Fingers crossed that he will get into State U![/quote]

No OP is not talking about this forum. Sometimes you see posts here from people who could be the 1%ers. But mostly this is UMC people freaking out.

The 1%ers are in fact insane about this stuff and they have the ability to do absolutely crazy things in order to achieve their goals of getting their kids into specific colleges. At that level it's not about "can we boost Junior's SAT score another 50 points" or "should we push for another AP?" It's about access, connections, a huge sums of money changing hands. It is crazy and ultimately weird because the kids of these people have the least to lose by just going to State U. They all have massive trust funds and have access to career paths no one else's kid has access to (like "start your own hedge fund in your 20s" or "work for editor of Vogue and then found own fashion website"). It truly doesn't matter where they go to school and many of them don't really need college. They've often gotten extremely elite K-12 educations and can already write and communicate at a high enough level to serve them in most industries. They don't need it for connections or relationships. They only need college if they want to be lawyers or doctors or something and most of them don't want to do that because those are actually really bourgeois for this crowd. [/quote]

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