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Oh, dear.  I'm guessing you didn't attend HYP.  If you had, you'd know that there's plenty or rough-and-tumble when you get so many Alpha kids together.  Indeed, self-promotion skills are critical to surviving at HYP.    [/quote]

Oh, dear, you'd be wrong!  Probably because you didn't attend HYP yourself. There are lots of introverted/more academically-oriented kids at these schools. Also, I went to Wharton, so there's that. Wharton's where you get the rough-and-tumble kids who challenge the professors, in front of the rest of the class, in obnoxious ways, in class. So yes: I'm pretty good at telling rough-and-tumble from intellectual/academic. You could learn from me.

Here's my biggest problem with your posts: your whinging and sour grapes. First you start with "admissions officers just don't understand how tough the private schools are." That got shot down, for good reason. So then you try out "well, those HYP kids are crap employees at my widget factor anyway". News flash: maybe those HYP kids are a bad fit for your widget factory, and maybe your widget factory really would be better off with the scrappy kids from Podunk U's business "school." Fine with me, I'll hire the intellectual/academic introverts for my public policy shop. Talent comes in all shapes and sizes. Your whiny "HYP grads are useless because they don't want to sell widgets" just sounds a little pathetic to the ears of this Wharton grad. [/quote]

Actually, I'm a Princeton and Stanford grad, and you've got me confused with another poster.  But I do agree that you're obnoxious -- query, though whether you learned this at Wharton or if it just comes naturally.      [/quote]

I was just following your example, honey, and that's where I "learned" this "obnoxious" behavior. Go refresh your memory by looking at your own first three sentences. Ciao, sweetie![/quote]

New poster here. I went to Harvard, and think you both sound like idiots.[/quote]

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