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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power.  This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd. [/quote]

This gave me a good chuckle - thanks!

a lot of good responses (psychology) in this thread.  If you see mean, ad hominem, aggressive, useless rants - report them - it will help improve the forum for the rest of us.  The 'broken glass' theory of Rudy Guiliani seems to work here as well (i.e. if you see broken glass in the neighborhood, bad behavior is more likely, so keep the glass from being broken).

[b]And keep in mind what the ultimate objective of sending kids to school (and parenting) is: for them to learn to be kind, caring, competent people who are curious, honest and hard working[/b].[/quote]

[b]Definitely agree with this[/b]. A lot of the rudeness come from parents here who may pay lip service to this but ultimately think the only thing that really matters is that enough people have heard of the college and would be jealous that you/your kids go there. [/quote]

What in the world?  (Now I'm going to come off sounding rude). I"m not paying $68k a year for my kid to be "kind, caring, competent people ... etc."  DC is already all those things. College isn;t going t teach you those things That's ridiculous.[/quote]
+1 billion

If you haven’t managed to instill those values in your kids for the 18+ years they lived at home, 4 years at any school isn’t going to do it. [/quote]

I don't know if college can *teach* conscientiousness and kindness, but I certainly want my son to attend a college where conscientiousness and kindness are valued. [/quote]

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