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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jesus.  Can all of you with the freaking obsession re: Ivy League and who goes to the top school (high school, really?) just shut up already?Women, those of you with the obsession, what the hell do you do for a living?  What have you accomplished since graduating from your top private prep or Ivy league school?   Married a successful man?   Had kids, that you can perpetuate the madness ?  It is so obvious that the majority of theese ridiculous postings are from SAHM with nothing better to do  than obsess and try to live vicariously through their children.  Get a life already.  As a woman, I'm  seriously embarassed. Enough  already, please just shut up!  [/quote]

I'm a first generation college grad from the midwest with two Ivy League degrees (including one from Harvard). Having those schools on my resume has opened many, many doors for me in DC and internationally. What do I do for a living? I'm a top level executive at an internationally respected NGO.

Obviously you can be successful coming from other schools (as demonstrated by the vast majority of successful people), but sometimes those names on a resume help. And especially if you and your family know nearly no one outside of your very small hometown. I will be happy with whatever school my children decide to attend (assuming they want to go to college), but I'm fully aware they will also have the benefit of growing up in a diverse area with a range of connections through both their own relationships and those of their parents. [/quote]

It can open doors, which is very important for those first generation college kids.  Hopefully kids who have made their way to top DC privates already have lots of connections and doors open to them.  They will all go to great schools and do well.  My child was lazy in school, but still learned a lot and got into A solid LAC.  He blossomed in college and now has lots of doors open to him, perhaps more than kids who glided into better schools without a good sense of themselves.  It can work out in lots of ways, but I think it can be very damaging for kids to think future success depends on Ivy admission.  It does not.[/quote]

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