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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I absolutely understand and empathize.

Why so much hate from people on this board.  OP hasn't said anything about the way he raises his kids or that these feelings are the dominant feelings he has about his kids.  Any parent who has achieved a lot of academic and career success will, at least at some level, wish their kids to have academic success--among other talents.  Doesn't everyone want the best for their kids?

The challenge is really how to sort through these wishes and feelings among a complex set of other feelings & wishes.  I'm sure that OP's first and foremost feeling & wish is that the kids are loved, healthy and happy.

That being said--we can all talk about F500 execs or entrepreneurs who were late bloomers or didn't go to top schools, etc. but let's be realistic:

[b]Top school alums make up a high proportion of very highly financially successful people...not a majority but a very high proportion.  If you count ivy, stanford, mit, duke, uchicago, northwestern, amherst, williams, swarthmore, ucberkley, ucla, michigan, etc and look at both undergrad and/or grad students it's a very high percentage.[/b]

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This. This is what matters at the end of the day. As much as everyone says "whatever makes them happy" -- they have been raised in a very cushy life with plenty of things, cars, vacations etc. -- I guarantee you ending up in a 85k job where you maybe get a driving vacation to a local beach every other year will NOT make them happy. So I don't get the hate from the other PPs. Sure there are those exceptions of -- my boss went to blah blah community college and is now a CEO. Great. But the closest thing in life to a 'guarantee' (and I realize there are no complete guarantees) is to get into one of those schools and study something marketable and start making good money young and investing. If you all don't want to push that -- fine -- but I do.[/quote]

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