Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This tells me how white this forum is. Only one post with HBCUs in a DC forum is crazy.

This is a pretty niche forum for actual americans

It's a destination forum for foreign accounts

Apologies to those who take offense, but I think this is easily recognizable when you see posts like "My life was so much worse under the Biden economy, now it's so much better! Especially because we now have a president who doesn't fall asleep anymore!"

Like, absolute intentional gaslighting.

But, I do enjoy the college threads.

Interesting! just like everywhere else

Anonymous wrote:Should include grand parents and ancestors

Someone did

Anonymous wrote:This tells me how white this forum is. Only one post with HBCUs in a DC forum is crazy.

This is a pretty niche forum for actual americans

It's a destination forum for foreign accounts

Apologies to those who take offense, but I think this is easily recognizable when you see posts like "My life was so much worse under the Biden economy, now it's so much better! Especially because we now have a president who doesn't fall asleep anymore!"

Like, absolute intentional gaslighting.

But, I do enjoy the college threads.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so stupid. Seriously what’s the point of it?

I actually think it's super interesting

My in-laws: Northwestern. FIL was a sports admit

Their kids: Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Tufts. All sports.

One of them introduced me to his brother 40 years ago at a game where they were playing each other.

Of all my sisters and brothers in law, only one of their kids (my kids' cousins, there are 18 of them) is now going to their own parent's alma mater

Six kids?

WTF is up with the all of the breeders?

1960s Catholics, FIL himself is the youngest from a family of 8. My last SIL was born when my MIL was 45

When I first met them all out in Chicago in the 80s I had to keep a notebook to keep track

My FIL was the only one of the whole family to go to college at all, and he was the youngest

That's why it was crazy they got so many of their kids into Ivies ... but it was also a very different time 40 years ago and was already changing by the time they got their bonus baby. Their eldest (BIL who introduced me to DH) was at college when she was born and I met her when she was 2. She's in her 40s now.

This tells me how white this forum is. Only one post with HBCUs in a DC forum is crazy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so stupid. Seriously what’s the point of it?

I actually think it's super interesting

My in-laws: Northwestern. FIL was a sports admit

Their kids: Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Tufts. All sports.

One of them introduced me to his brother 40 years ago at a game where they were playing each other.

Of all my sisters and brothers in law, only one of their kids (my kids' cousins, there are 18 of them) is now going to their own parent's alma mater

Six kids?

WTF is up with the all of the breeders?

Parents: Harvard
DC: Cornell and TBD

Should include grand parents and ancestors

Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t parents listing grad school?

I think the question mostly seems geared towards where your kids are getting into college based on your own alumni connections

I don't know that undergrad admissions caress so much about graduate connections because it's all about rah-rah sis boom bah alumni enthusiasm and that usually just doesn't happen with graduate schools

But my DH would be Harvard Harvard Harvard

And none of our kids went to Harvard

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so stupid. Seriously what’s the point of it?

I actually think it's super interesting

My in-laws: Northwestern. FIL was a sports admit

Their kids: Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Tufts. All sports.

One of them introduced me to his brother 40 years ago at a game where they were playing each other.

Of all my sisters and brothers in law, only one of their kids (my kids' cousins, there are 18 of them) is now going to their own parent's alma mater

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so stupid. Seriously what’s the point of it?

Seriously, what’s the point of you writing or reading the thread? Empower yourself, and begone.

Explain the point of it. Why is it interesting?

Parents: Chapel Hill, UR
Kids: Chapel Hill (OOS)

Anonymous wrote:Mom: CUNY
Dad: (different) CUNY
Son: SUNY
Daughter: (different) SUNY

I'm kind of shocked at all these rich people who went or sent their kids to private colleges. NY had 64 SUNY schools when my brother and I were coming up - we thought it was totally reasonable that our parents said out of 64 surely we could find one that was right for us.

One of my former classmates who is arguably one of the most successful in our HS class is the product of a CUNY, they are a New england state senator today. Got kicked out of a private college to begin with, it took them 7 years to work through a traditional bachelor's.

CUNYs don't let you coast by on your school name and they teach you to scrap and develop your actual skills

Likewise, my SIL had parents who cut off her funding and she had to drop out of private college. When she had to work pay for her own credits she said she studied a lot harder at the local state place (not community but you've never heard of it) and she ultimately landed a prime job at an investment firm because the partner who interviewed her said he was tired of Ivy League BS. She did really well. She married one of the other investment guys (who was my spouse's sibling).

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so stupid. Seriously what’s the point of it?

Seriously, what’s the point of you writing or reading the thread? Empower yourself, and begone.

This thread is so stupid. Seriously what’s the point of it?