Anonymous wrote:You have to be kidding if you think parents of rejected kids aren’t bitter and aren’t gonna make purposefully negative comments about a college simply because they didn’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools.

Holding an opinion about an institution which is zealous or not well founded is not the same as a direct insult to someone's kid. Just b/c someone says something someone doesn't like about a school their kid is attending or will attend doesn't mean it is okay to essentially say your kid must not have even gotten in there.

Who is arguing moral equivalency here?

The person who says, "I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools."

Meaning the two are somehow related/intertwined.

I'm the one who wrote that. OP asked for an explanation, and I offered one. I thought I was pretty clear that I thought "sorry your kid didn't get in" responses are silly: "I think it's a dumb thing to say to people." In any event, nowhere did I ever say that they were the same thing or that the first thing justified the second. I think you're reading something into my post that isn't there.

Not sure why you would post about when parents talk poorly about a school (more about that) than about the orig. question unless you saw a relationship bw the two.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools.

Holding an opinion about an institution which is zealous or not well founded is not the same as a direct insult to someone's kid. Just b/c someone says something someone doesn't like about a school their kid is attending or will attend doesn't mean it is okay to essentially say your kid must not have even gotten in there.

Who is arguing moral equivalency here?

The person who says, "I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools."

Meaning the two are somehow related/intertwined.

I'm the one who wrote that. OP asked for an explanation, and I offered one. I thought I was pretty clear that I thought "sorry your kid didn't get in" responses are silly: "I think it's a dumb thing to say to people." In any event, nowhere did I ever say that they were the same thing or that the first thing justified the second. I think you're reading something into my post that isn't there.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools.

Holding an opinion about an institution which is zealous or not well founded is not the same as a direct insult to someone's kid. Just b/c someone says something someone doesn't like about a school their kid is attending or will attend doesn't mean it is okay to essentially say your kid must not have even gotten in there.

Who is arguing moral equivalency here?

The person who says, "I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools."

Meaning the two are somehow related/intertwined.

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question. We are adults who are trying to help our own kids and possibly the other kids, too?

Goes something like this (actual posts):

OP: What school would you not want your child to go to even if admitted.

Answer: Vanderbilt. Never believed a school from the south would be good. Plus they just bought a campus in New York City??? Seems sketch

RESPONDER: Sorry your kid didn't get in.

The answer about Vanderbilt is just as obnoxious and jerky as the response to it, if not more. Schools from the south can't be good? What elitist nonsense.

Obnoxious? Sure. But one disses a school, the other a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question. We are adults who are trying to help our own kids and possibly the other kids, too?

Goes something like this (actual posts):

OP: What school would you not want your child to go to even if admitted.

Answer: Vanderbilt. Never believed a school from the south would be good. Plus they just bought a campus in New York City??? Seems sketch

RESPONDER: Sorry your kid didn't get in.

The answer about Vanderbilt is just as obnoxious and jerky as the response to it, if not more. Schools from the south can't be good? What elitist nonsense.

Anonymous wrote:Are they same people that say sorry you didn’t get a bid?

Anonymous wrote:Serious question. We are adults who are trying to help our own kids and possibly the other kids, too?

Goes something like this (actual posts):

OP: What school would you not want your child to go to even if admitted.

Answer: Vanderbilt. Never believed a school from the south would be good. Plus they just bought a campus in New York City??? Seems sketch

RESPONDER: Sorry your kid didn't get in.

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s adults, too. Juvenile adults.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools.

Holding an opinion about an institution which is zealous or not well founded is not the same as a direct insult to someone's kid. Just b/c someone says something someone doesn't like about a school their kid is attending or will attend doesn't mean it is okay to essentially say your kid must not have even gotten in there.

Who is arguing moral equivalency here?

Anonymous wrote:They are mean teenagers.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools.

Holding an opinion about an institution which is zealous or not well founded is not the same as a direct insult to someone's kid. Just b/c someone says something someone doesn't like about a school their kid is attending or will attend doesn't mean it is okay to essentially say your kid must not have even gotten in there.

Anonymous wrote:I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools.

Anonymous wrote:I've never uttered that sentiment in any form. But I suspect it's often a reaction to another poster's bizarrely strong opinion on a particular college. Again, I think it's a dumb thing to say to people. That said, I've sometimes wondered why some posters hold such zealous, almost emotional opinions on certain schools.