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We think this because we actually did go to these schools and did actually meet these people who graduated from prep school, matriculated to Ivy and ended up lost. I can always tell someone DID not go to HYP when they think that Horace Mann and Yale are a guaranteed meal ticket. Only someone who hadn’t been on the ground at one of these places could possibly think that.

Horace Mann was my guess, too.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I just found that the kids who were pressured from the time they were 5 to end up there had no clue how to handle themselves once they got what they’d worked so hard for and a lot ended up adrift longterm.[/quote]

The cope is always strong. This is so obviously untrue. Why do people think this?[/quote][/quote]

I’m a trin/harvard grad, so i didn’t go to HM or yale. I’ve posted elsewhere about my experience at trin, as well as the way it left me and my classmates oddly prepared for college. Yes, in my experience, a few kids w/ extremely pushy parents did get lost.  Same for my sibling’s class (also went to trin and harvard). But many of them didn’t. Most of them didn’t. The vast majority of them didn’t. Many of us have done well despite/bc of being pushed. There’s this weird, kind of fictional arc that people tend to rely on wherein someone was pushed as a kid, then made it to school w/o knowing who they are/what they want, etc., and as a result, struggle or go through depression or become aimless. This isn’t something that actually happens so often though.

My parents didn’t push us, but we wanted to go to good schools so we pushed ourselves. I didn’t enjoy my time at trin, and when i got to harvard, I didn’t really know who i was at all. That’s kind of what college was for though. The vast majority of my friends who went HYPSM - even those who got sidetracked as the result of having some kind of mid-college crisis or left for a time or transferred - have gone on to find something they love or managed to have become successful at something. The work ethic and drive that got you into a top school doesn’t just disappear once you get into college, nor does the desire to achieve. [/quote]

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