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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The overwhelming majority of parents at our private school, members of our country club, neighbors who live in $2M+ houses, executives at DH’s or my companies, did not attend any of the schools in OP’s post.  However, someone on my team graduated from Harvard and makes $175k 15 years out of school, which is nice, but achievable from pretty much any school.

I will never get the obsession of people like OP.  No one I know IRL cares this much about where their kids go.  I’m guessing OP is the first gen in her family to achieve UMC and hasn’t been exposed to enough wealthy people to see the millions of paths to success that don’t involve a “Tier 1” school.[/quote]

I agree with you on the first part, but do know lots of folks on the second. Even DH's cousin, who has a college admissions business and tells clients that there are "thousands of schools out there" with "many paths to success," would have died if her DCs did not attend one in the club or close enough. She is chiding the parent of a client on the phone about not being open minded about schools, then turns around and tells her DH that there is no way their DC is going to attend X state school as the DC will not meet the "right folks" there. [/quote]

+1.  It is true that "the overwhelming majority of parents at our private school, members of our country club, neighbors who live in $2M+ houses, executives at DH’s or my companies, did not attend any of the schools in OP’s post", but those people desperately want their kids to go to the schools in OP’s post.  [/quote]

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