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Anonymous wrote:What I find amusing is half of these kids admitted to T15 had non-profits to help inner cities kids learn to code or bring clean water to Haiti then by their college freshman year, they have forgotten all about these life-long passions.

Yup. Most of these non-profits that they "founded" are shuttered the second the applications are submitted. It is so sad.

How about making these kids commit to donating a portion of their first year's salary after college to the charity that got them into college. If they won't make that commitment, the charity work gets removed from the app (and they don't get in).

So many phonies. So much fakeness. So sad.

Did they not help those people as they claimed?
Why are they obligated to work for free for their whole lives? They’re not and they shouldn’t because it’s not sustainable.

No one wants to work for a company that actually makes something people use anymore. Go work in an entry level job in marketing or finance at a big CPG company (or a small CPG company). Lots of people used to graduate college and just do interesting one-off jobs - someone would take them under their wing and teach them the ways of corporate America.

Now it is banking, consulting, or computers. Or med school or law school. So sad. I know high tuition causes much of this, but it is also conformity.

Anonymous wrote:What I find amusing is half of these kids admitted to T15 had non-profits to help inner cities kids learn to code or bring clean water to Haiti then by their college freshman year, they have forgotten all about these life-long passions.

Yup. Most of these non-profits that they "founded" are shuttered the second the applications are submitted. It is so sad.

How about making these kids commit to donating a portion of their first year's salary after college to the charity that got them into college. If they won't make that commitment, the charity work gets removed from the app (and they don't get in).

So many phonies. So much fakeness. So sad.

Yeah because you used to be able to support a family with public service type jobs. Not anymore. To have the same lifestyle they had growing up, our kids need to be making $$$.

I'm in a public service job and my older kid is seemingly on a pathway to something similar. She's young yet, so perhaps it will change, but it's been a pretty consistent worldview since she was very young. Current events have seemingly reinforced her views.

A lot of the world doesn’t even want saving. Let them fend for themselves.

I needed to pay my tuition bills and they defended science a decade ago not just recently

Anonymous wrote:TBH, it’s some nepo babies who still want to change the world for good. Strivers’ kids just want to be rich.

Not a striver family, but would like the kids to achieve financial freedom first. If you can’t make yourself rich, you’re more than likely gonna change the world for worse like most Americans do these days.

This is the story since the dawn of civilization: the older generation thinks the next generation to going to hell...

Anonymous wrote:I have been a teacher for 30 years. My kids are in finance, or heading there. They saw me work my ass off and struggle and they want a different path. I am thrilled.

Same here, but I’m a nurse.

Anonymous wrote:TBH, it’s some nepo babies who still want to change the world for good. Strivers’ kids just want to be rich.

Correction - some nepo babies who still want to change the world for themselves for good.
You forgot the key words

At least in the Catholic Tradition, you are supposed to make a lot of money and then use that to make the world a better place.

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Anonymous wrote:I was so different at his age. Idealistic, driven to change the world. Which I never did, of course.

I think this next generation is more cynical, or maybe just realistic.

Oof, this hits.

It was a thing back then, right? Wanting to better the world and not stressing as much about the money but seeing a mission-driven career as valuable and not looked down upon.

My kids (granted an N of 2) just don't view the world that way.

Yeah. It was a thing. And a beautiful one - I still believe a life rich in purpose is a happier one than a life rich in money. And by that metric I am rich indeed! But my kid wants to go on nice vacations and go golfing without stressing about the cost, and I get that too. I don’t quite understand how anyone goes to work day after day after day without a driving purpose beyond money - I just don’t care enough for money to work that hard for it.

But my kid is not me, and he’ll find his way, even if it’s not my way.

What I find amusing is half of these kids admitted to T15 had non-profits to help inner cities kids learn to code or bring clean water to Haiti then by their college freshman year, they have forgotten all about these life-long passions.

Anonymous wrote:TBH, it’s some nepo babies who still want to change the world for good. Strivers’ kids just want to be rich.

I almost vomited. You’re such an ugly person.