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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I will be seriously disappointed if DS (now 12) is not accepted to a top 25 school.  Or a top 10 school for his major, which is looking like it could be engineering.  The very best engineering schools don't overlap neatly with absolute top 25.

I will love him just the same if he winds up at U. Wisconsin though.  And he will have a nice life if that happens.  But it's not wrong to strive for better.

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U of Wisconsin isn't that easy to get into either you know.[/quote]

It is for a certain profile.    It's where the disappointed Sidwell parents send their mid-pack, affluent white kids with no hook, for example.[/quote]

If you go to Sidwell and and up there--or Michigan, for that matter--ask yourself, why did I spend money for this crap?[/quote]

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound referring to Michigan or Wisconsin as "crap?" If the only reason you send your kid to Sidwell is to win the elite college lottery you are missing the point of private school education.[/quote]
And PP will be back in a few years when reality hits and she realizes that UWM or Michigan are in the running for her snowflake.[/quote]

Wisconsin Alum here-- it is not UWM, it is UW, Wisconsin, or Madison.  UWM is the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  And, by the way, any of your kids would be lucky to go to Wisconsin.  It is truly a life-changing university both socially and academically.  And, it is where stem cells were first isolated and where numerous world changing discoveries and innovations that benefit all of us are found every day.  So show a little f*&^ing respect.       [/quote]
I was actually saying the pp would be considering those schools for her kid one day but I guess UW didn't teach you reading comprehension. Must suck to carry that frozen chip on your shoulder. Sorry I don't know the naming convention of every middling university in bum fuck nowhere.[/quote]

Guess whatever overrated hallowed hall of learning you went to didn't teach you how to write clearly then.  And, I have no chip on my shoulder.  I went to one of the best universities in the world, certainly not "middling" and certainly not "in bum fuck nowhere." Sorry you are such an unhappy person.  Maybe sucking on a lemon would help.    [/quote]

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