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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's punching below your weight, OP.

What matters most is fit. Where your student feels most at home, comfortable. This is where I want to be. Single most important factor.[/quote]

+1000

Where will your DC thrive socially and emotionally as well as academically? That’s the key question that is often missing in the process. [/quote]

Please. Telling my friends and neighbors “my DC is so socially and emotionally happy their school” pales in comparison to “my DC goes to Yale.”

C’mon. You know this. [/quote]

DP: I totally disagree with you on that. [/quote]

+1 Yes it’s wunnerful that your kid got in Yale. But this isn’t 1980.

These days a Yale acceptance comes attached to a whole file cabinet full of suspicions that kid was cutting corners on phony charities, had family connections pulling strings, had daddy donate a new wing of the Chemistry building, had thousands of $ in SAT prep, had uncle provide documentation for bogus extra test time learning disability, and so on.

Everybody knows a dozen brilliant kids who didn’t even get waitlisted at a T10 because they weren’t related to f’ing Susan “Down with the capitalist patriarchy—but please wait til my kid graduates from Brown before starting the revolution”  Sarandon. [/quote]

First, wow, you need to deal with your anger, and …

Second, what are you talking about? 1980s Yale was predominantly white, rich and male, with all the elite private schools over represented. Is it perfect today, no! But at least it’s not just a majority of rich white legacy boys walking around campus. [/quote]

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