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Reply to "Everyone on DCUM should read Frank Bruni's recent book on colleges"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only if you have a kid who is willing to choose friends based on what they will do for him in the future. Yuck. I’m the PP who went to two Ivies. I have many accomplished classmates, some of whom are famous and some who are not. The majority are comfortably well-off, but most did not set the world on fire. I agree that many Ivy grads tend to be conformist and somewhat risk-averse — they are not willing to fail — which makes them less likely to be game-changers. However, that risk aversion in high school and college is how they obtain the credentials that get them into Ivy League schools. [/quote] +1 I went to an Ivy and an elite NE boarding school. Most of my friends from both places are, as you say, well-off, but not doing anything extraordinary. Most of the interesting and successful people I know as an adult did not attend Ivies.[/quote]
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