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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD found her people at her school. She is surrounded by fun, social kids who are smart and hard-working. They are at a rigorous school, so they all understand that people have to grind, and they’ll often study together in between meals and social activities. It has made it much easier to balance social life and studying because everyone understands and is in the same boat. [/quote]

And yet she and her peers are going to be working alongside, and probably even managed by, the kids who are content to study a reasonable amount at a lower ranked school, and who also actually HAVE hobbies, interests, and a social life.[/quote]

Hopefully their reading comprehension will be better than yours.[/quote]

Stating that someone is able to balance studying with the social life contradicts everything else in your post which indicates these kids don’t have a social life.  i.e. it’s easy to manage your social life when you don’t actually have one [b]because mommy wants you to “grind” so she can get internet bragging points.[/b]
Any other notes on my comprehension?[/quote]

These kids won’t just feel pressured to grind to make their parents proud—they’ll also be expected to marry the same kind, raise children in the same relentless cycle, and keep living in a perpetual bubble of achievements for others. See where the root of the problems? Those people who value extrinsic values would never understand what authentic success and originality mean.[/quote]

Spot on.  These people simply do not share my values.  They’re welcome to their T30 schools - some of us truly aren’t impressed by this type of person’s worldview.[/quote]

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