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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is unlikely that Harvard was life changing for you. You and your husband probably have some different personality characteristics from your siblings that made you more successful. You probably would have done just as well graduating from a selection of colleges.. Siblings are not exactly the same you know.[/quote]

You have zero basis for saying that since you don’t know me, my husband, or any of our sibs.  You may believe it, in which case it’s an article of faith for you.  But that doesn’t make it true.  By contrast, I know, because I experienced it, that Harvard changed my career aspirations and where I ended up living.  I also know that I would have married someone different.

Re I would have “done just as well” going to college elsewhere.  By your metric (which I’m guessing is income/job title/neighborhood), I might well have done better.  But that’s not how I evaluate or characterize my life.

FWIW, I’ll also point out that I said (from the beginning) that Harvard would not be life-changing for my kid.  DC already has knowledge of and access to a world that was alien to me at DC’s age.[/quote]

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