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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Strivers is code for URM, immigrant or FGLI. That is why UMC use the word. It is more polite. [/quote]

What???  Not the way my teens use it. And at that there very diverse high school it is used much more to describe the white, high SES kids.  It just means the kid who stress over the top about having the perfect grades, most extracurriculars, best recs, high test scores and spend all of high school focusing on that so that they get into that elite college.  None of my kids wanted to go to a school full of stressed out people like that![/quote]

Thats how its used at our private.
Weirdly the very top kids often don’t obsess about it as much as the ones trying to catch them, and they are the ones that more commonly go to ivies. ALL of them strive and have high goals though. Teachers announce high grades so that puts a bit of a target on top ones. 
They all have to worry about grades and be conscious of their resume thats just how the process works now, for lots of schools not just elites. Some “strive hard” for uva in state. Once at college many different fields have grade-conscious kids: premeds prelaw prePhD. They all have to work hard and have a plan: most got there by caring a lot about outcomes and being highly involved and able to juggle a lot. No school in the top25ish has significantly less of the striver mindset. The level of ambition may be a little higher at the ivy types but make no mistake the majority of kids strive. The main parents at our school who use the term pejoratively have kids who have no chance at UVA or higher so they mock the 30% of the class that ends up at T25. Dcum is the same. The ones who call out strivers and see it as a brag to not aim for top schools do not have kids cut out for it. They do not understand that goal-oriented ambitious students absolutely thrive at ivy and other T25. There is nothing wrong with striving, and one can aim high and also be collaborative and supportive of classmates. That’s DC at the ivy: more collaborative than high school yet almost all would be described as strivers and it is not a negative there[/quote]

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