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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an adult who did the same as your daughter, "good schools" really don't matter.

She's clearly a smart kid if she got into a reach. She'll make her way in life and likely be successful. But even if she isn't a huge success, who cares? As long as she's happy.

Leave her alone and be proud you raised a kid who is both intelligent and knows how to make choices that are true to herself.[/quote]

And for what it's worth, I worked in the White House along with all of the Ivy League graduates. Whether or not I went to a state school had nothing to do with it. I got their off of my own hard work.[/quote]

You don't get to the White House without a hook.  I am sorry.  Someone pulled for you. (And that's not a bad thing.) [/quote]

I know everyone in DC wants to believe this because they are spending so much money on expensive private schools, but no actually. My only hook was working incredibly hard and developing a reputation for my work as a result. I don't come from money and I arrived in DC with no professional connections. I've done well because I was very motivated to and it sounds like OPs kid is the same. She'll be fine.[/quote]

It depends on ideology too.

The Republican White Houses end up taking a lot more people from Christian schools and people who haven’t excelled academically.  The GWB WH was filled with Liberty grads for example.  It’s just a function of party dynamics in the US today, where the Democrats represent most college graduates and nearly everyone with an advanced degree.
So it’s just way easier to get into a Republican White House period.  A lot of the so-called Republican intellectual class is there on a sort of affirmative action based on their ideology.

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