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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if true, which I disagree with, is it worth it?  What is the end goal?  So you “succeed” at the pressure cooker and got into Harvard at the cost of mental health, time to develop socially, and time to experiment with interests.  Now what?  In what paths are you at an advantage vs an equally smart kid who went to, for sake of keeping a consistent example, Browning and then a non-Ivy top 25 college?  I guess the parents get to feel good that the “service” they paid for got them some Harvard merchandise?[/quote]

Yeah, this is a key point in this whole discussion too. Harvard versus the non-Ivy T25 school is going to help for a few specific things you might want to do, namely:

- Work at a top Wall Street or consulting firm;
- Get into a top medical school, though this mostly matters if you want to enter a very competitive specialty;
- Get into a top law school, though this mostly matters if you want to work for a top law firm;
- Get into a top PhD program and from thence to academia, though that's a pretty bleak job market nowadays even for Harvard grads

There was a period where it helped for tech jobs but it no longer particularly does. And with the current upheaval in academia, and ever-dwindling acceptance rates meaning more and more qualified kids are turned away from Ivies, other pieces of this could easily fall apart too by the time it matters.

At any rate, if the vision you and your kid have for their future does not run through any of those paths, spending half of their childhood fighting for a spot at Harvard is pretty hard to justify for anything other than bragging rights.[/quote]

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