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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who’s apologetic about their kid being at Emory? For some, Emory is a reach and a top choice. Emory has little in common with most T-30’s, except maybe Wash U. [/quote]

Ivy League grads apologize for their kids going to Emory.

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Apologize to whom?  This is just a bizarre statement and use of the word “apologize”.

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NP. I'm curious if English is not your first language, which is fine! But like, you know, what an apologist is, right? That's the sense they're using the word in.

It's absolutely not a bizarre usage. [/quote]
NP. I was thinking the same.

I have met apologist/defensive Emory parents and joyous, embracing Emory parents.  The former, I met casually at a restaurant. She was from Beth/CC area and started bragging about her kid going to Emory but clouded over when someone asked my kid where she attended.  She then cornered my kid (whom she had only just met) at the bathroom to grill her on how she (my kid) could have gotten into an Ivy, suggesting she was only admitted for her sport (which she only started after attending the college). So weird.

The latter is a good friend who loves Emory for all it offered her kid. Her kid had an awesome experience there studying across subject areas.

Emory is a great school. The issue is some of the privilege and  jockeying by parents and students.  People just need to evaluate for themselves. [/quote]

How awful. I’m a proud, enthusiastic  Emory parent and am equally happy for my kid’s friends who are attending higher-ranked or more selective schools. My kid looked at those same higher-ranked schools, and didn’t apply because they didn’t check off some important boxes. Emory checked off important boxes for them (size, vibe, weather, geography, urban-ish but not too urban). It’s really on the kid (and parents) to embrace the kid’s college choice instead of looking at what others are doing. [/quote]

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