Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:30     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Parents: George Mason, None
Kids: V Tech, Radford
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:29     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Dad: Western Michigan
Mom: Kalamazoo College

Kids: Albion, Michigan State
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:24     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
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


I think it interesting because it is a window into social mobility, albeit merely anecdotal and difficult to draw firm conclusions.

If anything, I detect a strain that going to high value schools (someone mentioned the SUNY schools as an example) combined with diligence, make a lot of sense. Some of the so-called prestige schools attract very bright people. They would succeed in many environments.

One can achieve social mobility without college. But the stats don't support it generally. I went to a so-called prestige school, but on athletic scholarship. For me, just going to a decent college (may parents did not go to any college) enabled me to mature, engage in time management, and set priorities. These are valuable skills and four years in the scholastic world gave me the opportunity and space to develop them.

I observed it harder to obtain a degree in terms of requirements and volume at my twin brother's high quality state flagship. A multiple NCAA All American, he had significantly more requirements than I did at my private school. Not sure either was harder or easier on balance, but it was an equally challenging experience for him. He went on to be a well known Econometrics PHD, and his public school served him well, obtaining beyond generational wealth and living a full intellectual life (he passed away a year ago).

i understand those who claim college should not be solely about social mobility. But for poor kids like my brother and me, it always loomed large in our minds. Getting it done on our own and without debt changed us.



Very insightful post and I’m sorry for your loss.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 13:47     Subject: Re:Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Anonymous wrote:This tells me how white this forum is. Only one post with HBCUs in a DC forum is crazy.


I agree. Nothing but unearned white privilege showing up in like 90% of this forum.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 13:32     Subject: Re:Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Parents: Amherst, Yale
DD1: Villanova
DD2: Yale
DS1: Amherst
DD3: Brown
DD4: Harvard
DD5: Committing to Yale CO2030!
DS2, DD6, & DS3: TBD
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 13:32     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I see a ton of downward mobility in these posts (Almost all Ivies/Duke/Stanford do not have Ivy kids or have Cornell kids at most).

I think this is 3 fold from observing the kids at our private school:

1)Kids who grow up around money/success do not feel the pressure/panic to achieve the same.

2)Highly successful people do not have the time to manage their kids. Getting kids into HYPDS generally takes some degree of micro management AT SOME POINT in high school. Very few HYPS level kids are completely self driven from ages 14-18.

3)Intelligence reverts to the mean? Not sure if this is true or not but it kind of holds true for some families I know.


4) college admissions at top schools are way harder now
than a generation ago

+1. Much harder now without sports, donor, or other hook.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 13:22     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
I’m surprised at that there seem to be no posters who attended college in India, The Middle East, West Africa, China, Korea, etc., given the large presence of immigrants in the DMV.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 13:12     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
“Social Mobility” is not defined as moving up or down from one perceived tier of college ranking to another. Get a grip.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 13:09     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Anonymous wrote:I see a ton of downward mobility in these posts (Almost all Ivies/Duke/Stanford do not have Ivy kids or have Cornell kids at most).

I think this is 3 fold from observing the kids at our private school:

1)Kids who grow up around money/success do not feel the pressure/panic to achieve the same.

2)Highly successful people do not have the time to manage their kids. Getting kids into HYPDS generally takes some degree of micro management AT SOME POINT in high school. Very few HYPS level kids are completely self driven from ages 14-18.

3)Intelligence reverts to the mean? Not sure if this is true or not but it kind of holds true for some families I know.


4) college admissions at top schools are way harder now than a generation ago
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 13:08     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
I see a ton of downward mobility in these posts (Almost all Ivies/Duke/Stanford do not have Ivy kids or have Cornell kids at most).

I think this is 3 fold from observing the kids at our private school:

1)Kids who grow up around money/success do not feel the pressure/panic to achieve the same.

2)Highly successful people do not have the time to manage their kids. Getting kids into HYPDS generally takes some degree of micro management AT SOME POINT in high school. Very few HYPS level kids are completely self driven from ages 14-18.

3)Intelligence reverts to the mean? Not sure if this is true or not but it kind of holds true for some families I know.

Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 13:07     Subject: Re:Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Anonymous wrote:This tells me how white this forum is. Only one post with HBCUs in a DC forum is crazy.

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but HBCUs educate only a small percentage of black students:
“Of all the bachelor’s and master’s degrees conferred to Black students, the percentage conferred by HBCUs has decreased over time. For example, HBCUs conferred 35 percent of the bachelor’s degrees and 21 percent of the master’s degrees Black students earned in 1976–77, compared with 13 and 5 percent, respectively, in 2021–22”
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=667
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 12:59     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
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


I think it interesting because it is a window into social mobility, albeit merely anecdotal and difficult to draw firm conclusions.

If anything, I detect a strain that going to high value schools (someone mentioned the SUNY schools as an example) combined with diligence, make a lot of sense. Some of the so-called prestige schools attract very bright people. They would succeed in many environments.

One can achieve social mobility without college. But the stats don't support it generally. I went to a so-called prestige school, but on athletic scholarship. For me, just going to a decent college (may parents did not go to any college) enabled me to mature, engage in time management, and set priorities. These are valuable skills and four years in the scholastic world gave me the opportunity and space to develop them.

I observed it harder to obtain a degree in terms of requirements and volume at my twin brother's high quality state flagship. A multiple NCAA All American, he had significantly more requirements than I did at my private school. Not sure either was harder or easier on balance, but it was an equally challenging experience for him. He went on to be a well known Econometrics PHD, and his public school served him well, obtaining beyond generational wealth and living a full intellectual life (he passed away a year ago).

i understand those who claim college should not be solely about social mobility. But for poor kids like my brother and me, it always loomed large in our minds. Getting it done on our own and without debt changed us.

Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 12:56     Subject: Re:Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Anonymous wrote:This tells me how white this forum is. Only one post with HBCUs in a DC forum is crazy.


Is it somehow someone’s fault that more white people are interested in this forum?
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 12:41     Subject: Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
Anonymous wrote:
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?


NP: people cannot choose their own interests?

Seriously, you and the other PP seem to have a bad case of “STOP LIKING WHAT I DON’T LIKE!” tantrum.

Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 12:38     Subject: Re:Where did the parents and kids in a family attend college?
My parents: Uppsala College; East Orange NJ. Defunct as of 1995.

American U. 1990 SIS grad.