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Kids are at an Ivy (a Top one, I assure you).  Oh, and we turned down a magnet.  I just don't think any of this entitles me to put on a disingenuous show of modesty.  It's unnecessary and silly  because getting into these schools isn't a golden ticket.  But, hey, good luck to you too in addressing your anger management issues.[/quote]

When did all these trashy people arrive on DCUM? People who mock basic courtesy: it's fine to be smug like OP, but it's "disingenuous" to be modest. I suppose this is where I could launch into a long lecture about empathy, being kind to your less fortunate friends because that's what friends do for each other, yadda yadda. I'm sure it would fall on deaf ears, because so many of you think that success gives you the right to be immodest and uncaring. On second thought, scrap "trashy." Some of you verge  on the sociopathic. [/quote]

Yadda yadda yadda. The fake modesty is also ridiculous and patronizing. Little ol' me who go into Harvard? How stupid does that sound? Being kind to the less fortunate (who did not get into a top 3...so less fortunate). Immodest and uncaring? Why the whole burden on OP? Try to be an adult in your emotions and actions with others![/quote]

The eye-rolling PP is not so different from OP's phony cluelessness.  Both are variations of faux modesty.  Both want to wallow in the feeling that  other parents are envious or cowed.      [/quote]

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