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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/opinion/rethinking-college-admissions.html?ref=opinion[/url]

If the best schools begin to actively discourage college resume padding, what happens to the grinds and tiger parenting offspring? Are they going to take their smarts and find purpose and meaning to channel their energy and hard work? Or are they going to stick to their conventional path and game their essays and interviews to fake passion and commitment to get in?  Are they going to shift their attention to those really great state universities that are too big to do holistic admissions and abandon the Ivies?  What will you do?[/quote]

This is so condescending.  You are such an elitist.  [b]You devalue somebody whose goal is to make a lot of money or have a prestigious job.  Why not accept that some of us want things like that?[/quote][/b]

NP here.  I don't think OP is devaluing a person -- but certainly you can't believe a goal of making a lot of money or having a prestigious job is supposed to be admired?  [/quote]

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If you don't value having a high paying job, then pat yourself on the back for being born into a family that never struggled with a low paying job. If you poor, you won't be able to afford the extracurriculars but your kid can still work to graduate at the top of their class. But of course they will be "drones" :rolls:. If creativity is so important to colleges, then they should teach it to their students. I'm sure the high achieving kids will learn very quickly. [/quote]

I think drive is to be admired.  And focus.  Our society values money, so it is not odd at all that people with drive and focus aim towards money.  It is elitist to set your values above those of the society around us.  The vast majority of people want a nice house, a nice vacation, nice clothes.  The people you are calling "drones" are really those who have the self discipline to get these things.  They can do anything they choose to do.[/quote]

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