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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]*Hits the lottery of free elite education and doesn't know what everyone scrimping, saving, and paying off their own loans is so uptight about.*[/quote]

OP here. I get what you're saying but just wanted to add three comments:

1. I think everything that everything that DH and I accomplished could've been done at a state flagship. The vast majority of my grad school cohort (a fully-funded PhD in Clinical Psychology) came from state schools or SLACs, and I was definitely one of the small handful that went to an Ivy for undergrad. And law/med schools don't care about where you went to college -- only GPA and standardized test scores.

2. Most DCUM children have no loans since this board is predominantly UMC. Graduating debt-free gives your children the liberty to take low-paying jobs that they'll enjoy.

3. Even UMC people I know who never took out student loans are freaking out about ROI and CS and Wall Street. I know tons of people in my neighborhood whose parents paid for their schooling or who went for free (especially if they are immigrants who went to undergrad in their home country for a really low price) who obsess over job placement and STEM majors for their kids.

I just don't get it.[/quote]

Are you White?  We have already established that you can be stupid even if you go to Ivies.  [/quote]

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