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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you check out her early videos, she was rejected or waitlisted from many of these top schools and was pretty bitter about attending her UC for the first year or so (my kid watches her videos). It's a good lesson in getting over disappointment and making the most of the opportunities that are available to you, so I hope kids watching her have that takeaway. Coming from PA/Midwest, I was surprised to see how competitive and stressful her HS experience of applying to college and receiving decisions was and how bitter (and somewhat entitled) that environment of overachieving and competition can make 18 year olds. It was news to me that kids felt disappointed by UCLA and UCB and snarked about or harbored resentment for kids who did get in, whom they perceived to be less competitive. [/quote]

That’s why she places Berkeley so high. The students who most want to litigate the rankings are those who tried for better schools, but had to settle for something less. Now, their lifelong mission is to boost the status of their school near those that rejected them. To do so, they trash every school between their school’s current ranking and where they wish their school to be ranked. Other than their wish, they have no objective basis for their re-rankings, just like this bitter YouTuber. There’s no objective value in the video or this thread. [/quote]

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