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Does no one here get it!?!  Rigor, SAT scores, NMSFs, etc is totally beside the point.  You send your DC to a "name" school to get to know the right people.  Then, they hopefully are savvy enough to stay in the crowd (easier of course if they get into a "top ivy/SLAC" with the legacies) and then get the right job/campaign with the salary that takes them comfortably into the 1% or higher.  No one cares whether anyone is well-educated.  Just marketing.  It's naive to suppose that dc folks angst over pre-school admissions because of the education![/quote]

How old are your kids? I think you don't get it. This is a rose-colored view of the upper classes from about 1955. You're thinking back to when Biff enrolled in dad's old prep school, grew up with Tommy and they spent summers together at the Club, and fast forward 15 years to when Tommy or maybe Tommy's dad gets Biff a not-too-strenuous job at the investment bank.

Today it's about meritocracy. That's why it's silly to talk about how education, NMSs and GPAs are besides the point -- these are the essential entry tickets for those Ivy League school's you're drooling over. [/quote]

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