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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True.

But DCUM is a message board that caters to DC-area educated folks, so the percentage of kids from DCUM parents attending T30 schools is way way higher than 2%.

If you live in a pocket where your high school has an instagram with 30+ impressive college acceptances each year, and you have a high achieving kid, and the parents are highly educated, yeah, you're gonna play the game.

If you are first-gen or focused on a 2+2 model, you're unlikely to play the game.

DCUM isn't representative of the US and a whole lot of DC area high schools and neighborhoods aren't either. They *are* the 5%. [/quote]

The irony is that most of the 5% in the DC area live a worse life than the country’s 10% elsewhere. To most of the country, there’s no flex living in a $1.5-2 million, 2500 sq ft, split-level in Bethesda or working BigLaw or double GS-15 on policy issues. Sure, it’s a particular lifestyle and game to be played, but it’s hardly the best game life offers. [/quote]

There’s a subset of DCUM users who are transitioning from one game to the other. They show up every spring with their T30 pedigree, 529 account, and junior with stats that would have been impressive in 1992; learn about how college admissions has changed since then; and recalibrate. Some are angry about it, some are in denial, but lots move through various stages of grief and then get on with their lives. I’ve come to see this as one of the more valuable functions of this board. [/quote]

Not sure if you’re saying my earlier post was a cope, but it wasn’t. I’m just saying that in the DMV, a certain residential location, type of job, and school pedigree is highly valued that has limited appeal elsewhere in the county. Sure, everywhere else has their aspirations, but it’s oftentimes less focused on academic pedigree and exercising power/dominating others - save football![/quote]

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