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[quote=Anonymous]I find this such an odd post and I'm wondering what OP's background is that she felt the Ivy was the end-all, be-all.

My husband and I are both from very middle class families.  With a lot of hard work and some demographic luck, we went to Ivies.  I think my husband was sort of thinking that would be our kids' path too....but I never really felt like the Ivies are some magic wand.  We did do a lot as far as music classes, etc., trying to feed our kids interests.  The time I spent helping them select books for pleasure reading to make sure they were reading a good selection was like a part-time job.  Was that good time spent? I don't know.

Our oldest, who probably is the only one that would have had a shot at Ivies, definitively did not want one.  She visited a couple, hated one and was "meh" on the other, but then had her heart set on a different school, which she now attends.

Anyway, my advice for ALL parents is to find the things your kid is interested in, and feed that.  That's the end in and of itself.  For some kids, that passion will flame out (they can't all be shark-scientists or giraffe-doctors or race car designers), but for others, that will develop into something long-lasting and important to them.  And, at the least, they'll have the experience of knowing that, when you love something, there are ways to study it and enhance that experience, and maybe that will come in handy in something else.  [/quote]

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