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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.gallup.com/poll/168848/life-college-matters-life-college.aspx

Ugh, "Ivy League" schools -- the obsession is so...20th century.  Kids have much more pressing matters to deal with these days than their parents' vicarious social aspirations.  Really wealthy kids are the only ones that benefit from the Ivy cliques they will be a part of there.  All the rest are stuck, later, at 30 years old seeing a shrink to help them deal with how much they suffered along the way.[/quote]

Favorite comment I've ever read on DCUM -- Ivy League grad here paying my shrink bill & reading DCUM as my lacrosse and hockey team and high-status sorority classmates have racked up fortunes and are retiring to islands.

-- Mother of Key students who has no planned pathway but anxiety about middle schools.[/quote]

FWIW, I am another Ivy League grad who was never wealthy or upper class growing up (we were an immigrant family), who is quite happy with my Ivy Leage degree which eventually enabled me to get a job I like, a lifestyle I like and also was the place I met my (also not wealthy or upper class) husband. So I think most schools are what you make of them - hardly an automatic ticket to suffering :)[/quote]

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