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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh, when I look at my Ivy parent kid’s we see:

Harvard
Pomona
UT Austin
John’s Hopkins 
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
Williams
Barnard
NYU
BU[/quote]

But also give us the less selective schools...[/quote]
Those are the schools their kids attend. If you’re highly educated, your kid shouldn’t be going to auburn.[/quote]

Sure, if all the genes mix up in the "right" way, your kid should also go to an ultra-selective school. But life doesn't always work that way. My kids got their dad's academic smarts (dad played collegiate sport, went to mediocre college) and their mom's athletics (mom went to Ivy but not an athlete).  One side of the family is super smart and the other super athletic. Jokes on us that neither of the "good" qualities dominated and instead all the average ones.  So the "wrong" genes expressed.  But if the genes had mixed the other way, the kids would have been in a much different place. Luckily, they are still happy kids and go to perfectly fine schools but definitely would be deemed a failure by this forum's standards despite my own Ivy pedigree.   No amount of tutoring, planning, support or coaching etc. could ultimately overcome the way the genes expressed.  [/quote]

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