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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is a high stat, Indian-American, STEM kid, with pretty good ECs, good social skills, and good work ethics. He will be dinged at the top school for being Indian-American, but he will nonetheless get into some good school in a eng/cs major.  His hard work is not to get into a t20 school, though he will certainly apply to these top schools, but rather to be able to excel and enjoy the major he chooses. That the barrier to entry is high in these STEM majors puts merit at the forefront rather than race, legacy and nepotism.

Just like education and learning is not for the purpose of getting into T20, a career is also not just to make money.  Hopefully, they will put their family first and provide security and support to their spouse and children.

In the end, you come out ahead not because you got in to a top college because of some kind of BS criteria, but because of your own merit.  Similarly, what is the use of a high flying career that you have because of your connections  if you have a broken family and children who have messed up their lives??

Hopefully, the fact that we are middle class but can fund our child's entire education and give them a leg up in life because of our frugality...will be more useful to them than anything else.
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Beautifully put! +1[/quote]

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