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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Just know that the prestige and the quality of graduating class from top schools has been degraded immeasurably over the past 5 - 10 years.[/quote]

That's a GIGANTIC claim you are going to have to provide evidence for.[/quote]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/work-trends-findings-college-graduates-carl-van-horn#:~:text=Fifty%2Dsix%20percent%20(56%25),say%20there%20is%20no%20difference.

#lightwork[/quote]

That article has nothing to do with students at "top schools", so it does not prove your point at all.

However, to the article, 
Yes, many feel college grads are less prepared than before---because we are raising kids where Mommy & daddy do everything for them.  I don't recall in the80s/90s when I was in college ever hearing about a parent calling a college professor to complain about Lara or Ethan---no parent would ever think about that back then.  Because in HS no parent went in to fight their kid's battles either.  However even back then, at top schools (attended a T10 school), there were kids who literally had no clue how to do a load of laundry.  They'd load a top loader so full you couldn't shove another item into it and then wonder why it broke or their clothes were not clean.  And these were supposedly some smart kids, who had no common sense in basic life skills.   I have to imagine the situation is much worse nowadays (and both my college kids confirmed it was their freshman years---meanwhile my kids had learned those basic life skills back at age 10/12

Now we have parents who are so used to helicoptering and interfering without allowing their kid to develop conflict resolution skills in MS/HS that they go off to college and cannot function.  Yes, it happens at elite schools and it happens to "top students" academically.  [/quote]

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