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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Happy to say that life has moved on very successfully.  It's true that they all end up where they belong.  But I can't stand families that screw up the process for their community for no good reason other than short sighted self-gratification.  Just putting a note out there to others about the benefits from being thoughtful of others.  Not very religious but there's that " Do unto others..."
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Please stop your sanctimonious preaching. If John D. Rockefeller, Leeland Stanford, Bill Gates and countless others had followed your asinine philosophy, we would not have the University of Chicago, Stanford, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and many other institutions which help countless humans.

What you call "short sighted self-gratification" is what provides incentives for humans to work hard and be productive. Adversarial competition, encourages the average student to study and perform better, so she doesn't have to fear that another kid from her school is applying to the same school she is applying. She will rest easy knowing that she can hold her ground against any student. You could take your logic to its logically foolish end, by actually passing rules to prevent students from applying to more than "1" elite school, like they do in the UK where you can apply to only "Cambridge or Oxford" but not both. You think this is what will help the students in the long run?
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