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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once again, DCUM showing true colors.

High income white and asian people feeling sorry for themselves because little Johnny who has done every activity since the age of two, has never had to work in his life, and has had a tutor for the SAT may not get into a Top 20 school!  How sad.

Keep telling yourself that you and your kids have it so bad as compared to a low income family struggling to pay for rent and food let alone health care.  Keep telling yourself that your kid with a 1500 is such a genius and the black kid in DC with a 1200 is just going to screw up the whole Ivy League college.

Pathetic.  Your kids (and all their AD/ADHD bullshit diversity) will be fine at Boulder, Indiana, Wisconsin, or god forbid American or UMBC.

No one deserves a top 20 spot.  My kids have been read to since they were babies, they never had to worry about having enough money to pay for a meal, they have had doctors when they are sick, I have been able to pay for them to get help (mentally) when needed, they had tutors for these stupid standardized tests which do not correlate to success anyway, and they have been free to pursue what they want in terms of EC activities because we don't need them to work to pay for basic needs.  This, DCUM folks, is called privilege. They-and most of you posting-are so privileged and yet all you do is whine and complain.  All you can see is that your kid might have to go to a school in the Top 50 instead of the Top 20.  Get a grip. You are lucky. They are beyond lucky.

And for those who are privileged but have faced true adversity--your kids have support, are resilient and will be fine if they go to Mason instead of UVA.  Seriously

All of you need to stop with this "we white rich people are so discriminated against." This whole 'we deserve Ivy Leagues' mentality is pathetic. None of you are moving to low-income neighborhoods.  What a joke.  You would rather have your kid go to the 2nd tier state school than have to be a minority and go to school with brown kids.  And that is fine, but don't act like all of a sudden you are moving from potomac to Southeast.

Ugh-- with all that is going on in the world, it would be really nice if folks on here could acknowledge how good their kids have it.
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