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Anonymous wrote:I think it's the anonymity.

I think it's because manipulators are trying to undermine our universities along with our other institutions. They're spending a fortune on getting talk radio and Fox News viewers to hate our universities.

Of course, plenty of brilliant conservative people go to those universities and teach at those universities. But some suggestible people get riled up by those campaigns and start coming on message boards to denounce the selective university monsters.

I think what the selective university haters miss is that kids who find high school too easy need a chance to attend a brutally tough school with similar kids. Breezing through school without doing much work is crippling. In the real world, people with IQs of 190 struggle, too. If they never have a chance to do something hard in school, they'll get lost and drift once they're out working.

So, regular bright kids might not need MIT, but kids who teach themselves calculus when they're 12 need that or the equivalent to have a hope of having a normal life.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's the anonymity.

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

Because high academic achievers are NEVER good looking or sexually voracious, right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

thank you, for an enormous laugh.

Anonymous wrote:Often times high academic achievers are endowed with inferior looks and have low sexual power. This makes them angry and idiosyncratic from dysmorphia. They freak out worried about normal or attractive people taking their spot in a highly ranked college leaving them with nothing. Also when they graduate from a well ranked school, they clutch onto it like a life raft hoping it floats them above the ugly rabble of moon crickets and let's them hang with the good looking, cool crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:"at least 10 years away from starting the college process"...is your child in Kindergarten??

No, 1st. But I have some interest in some of the issues discussed here, have extended family members who have recently gone through the college application process or will soon, and am just curious what the future holds. I wonder whether my spouse and I will become single-minded, stop-at-nothing-to-get-my-child-into-an-Ivy types in a few years. Right now, we do have reasonably high expectations, but are fairly laidback, I like to think. Will that change? Or were the types of parents here who are calling others idiots and morons always that way, even in the earlier years?

Don't worry about what's going to happen 10 years down the road. And don't worry about other people.

Anonymous wrote:Come on over to the Kids w/ SN forum. Better perspective and high fives all around just for surviving the weekend or getting your child to get on the bus, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"at least 10 years away from starting the college process"...is your child in Kindergarten??

No, 1st. But I have some interest in some of the issues discussed here, have extended family members who have recently gone through the college application process or will soon, and am just curious what the future holds. I wonder whether my spouse and I will become single-minded, stop-at-nothing-to-get-my-child-into-an-Ivy types in a few years. Right now, we do have reasonably high expectations, but are fairly laidback, I like to think. Will that change? Or were the types of parents here who are calling others idiots and morons always that way, even in the earlier years?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"at least 10 years away from starting the college process"...is your child in Kindergarten??

No, 1st. But I have some interest in some of the issues discussed here, have extended family members who have recently gone through the college application process or will soon, and am just curious what the future holds. I wonder whether my spouse and I will become single-minded, stop-at-nothing-to-get-my-child-into-an-Ivy types in a few years. Right now, we do have reasonably high expectations, but are fairly laidback, I like to think. Will that change? Or were the types of parents here who are calling others idiots and morons always that way, even in the earlier years?