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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad got into a top 5 law school by showing up the month before classes began and chatting with the dean and showing them his LSAT score. No, it wasn't a perfect score. That's how easy it was to get into school back then. The generation gap has 100% to do with scare resources. We millennials go nuts trying to optimize kids to get into college [b]because it's now impossible.[/b] That leads to all sorts of parenting decisions that seem baffling and wrong and pathetic to previous generations who weren't under this pressure.[/quote]

No, it’s not. You just can’t fathom that one can have a fulfilling life without always being at the top. GMAFB with your scarce resources. If you have the luxury to ponder parenting philosophies and optimize children, you’re doing fine. [/quote]

I’m the one who wrote that and you’re wrong. I went to a mediocre state school because I got a scholarship there, paid my own way by working shitty jobs at the expense of the glamorous unpaid internships I now know you need to get a good job later, and it took me over a decade to pay off my debt and claw my way up from scratch to a job anyone on DCUM would consider decent and white collar. I don’t want that for my kids! It was too hard. Meanwhile my friends who got Cs at Stanford waltzed into Deloitte and made 6 figures with no student debt and partied around the world while they got their MBAs. I know exactly what I missed out on and what the differences in your life and opportunities are if you go to a top20 or not.[/quote]

Well I still don’t feel sorry for you, but I kind of do for your kids now. That’s a lot to put on them when the prize is getting to party around the world with a bunch of losers from Deloitte. But I wish them well. May they one day have a job that DCUM considers white collar. Goals![/quote]

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