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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where a kid goes to college is social capitol for a parent. Its why parents are willing to spend thousands on counseling, tutoring, and test prep. A dad in Bethesda knows his smart son will be successful at UMD, but he won't be able to brag about that to his friends so he becomes over invested in the college admissions process. On the flip side, this creates this weird insecurity among parents when it comes to their kid's grades and admissions prospects. So, they come to pages like this to rant and attack each other. I saw this dynamic first hand as a high school senior at a wealthier, competitive high school. If i had to guess, half of the posts here are just insecure parents making up stories about how their 1590 sat kid is going to Yale, etc. It is embarrassing. [/quote]

Where a kid goes to college really isn’t social capital for the parents (my friend’s housekeeper has one son at University of Pennsylvania and the other at Yale).  I doubt her life or social circle changed at all.  However where the parents went to school still is.  And that’s what parents want for their kids.  No crime in that.  [/quote]

I tend to disagree.  Your friends housekeeper got a boost by likely being an URM, and people tend to know that and be more accepting of that fact, when it happens, since so many slots are reserved for URMs.

My friends whose DC were admitted to T20 have people who they barely know, who barely acknowledged them over the years approach them and aggressively ask how they did it.  They were at the top of their class, and their parents (my friends) are amongst - if not THE - smartest people I know!  Of course their children do well with zero boosts.

I think some people just happen to think they are better than other people. My friends are not like that, so they were surprised when so many randoms approached them about the topic.

That, and people are extremely insecure, OP.

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No, my friend’s housekeeper is a white American.  [/quote]

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