Anonymous wrote:The most pompous people I've ever met in my career went to Dartmouth. The legacy of d-baggery continues.

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Anonymous wrote:Just read her other essay.

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/10/cradle-to-cap-and-gown-the-prep-school-to-ivy-pipeline

"After attending public school through the eighth grade, I switched to an all-girls private school in Washington, D.C. Going from a class of 500 to a class of 74 was a shock, but the true jolt was adapting to the pure wealth and privilege surrounding me. I consider my family to be very well off, but my peers made me feel like a pauper. Although there are a fair number of students on financial aid at exclusive high schools, the majority of the student body comes from rich, well-connected families."

Absurd. Oblivious and absurd.

How is that statement absurd?

paired with her whine about being a legacy at Dartmouth, she is part of that privileged class

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I am genuinely stunned by the backlash the OP's posted piece has received. I have a completely opposing view of it. And let me clarify that I VERYYYYYY much dislike NCS, due to the culture. I would not even consider applying for my straight A, high SSAT, URM (uniquely diverse) daughter. Never! With that out of the way...

I fully understood the points being conveyed by the author. The young lady is simply at a crossroads of identity exploration, as many are at that age during freshman year of college. It does not strike me as whining, but rather seeking to carve her own path in life, and one that is valid and appreciated as her own instead of a mere replication of her preceding parents (+other family members). Being in that situation at any university would be difficult, and is only amplified at any Ivy. As much as I detest NCS, and the widely-reported negative experience of URM girls there (in large part, on account of girls like the author), I still appreciate her human experience and the challenges of maturation into adulthood. This seems to be my unpopular opinion (shrugs). Compassion for all human struggles, despite SES/privilege, goes a long way and can extend to struggles starkly different from our own. My immigrant parents would be her parents' literary foil, yet I cannot/wouldn't condemn her for struggling to establish herself as an individual. Just my thoughts.

You sound weirdly obsessed with NCS and weirdly braggy. My daughter is also OMG a URM and I can’t imagine being this obnoxious. Get over yourself.

Do you have a condition/disorder that hinders reading comprehension?? Perhaps that is why your response is so severely disconnected from my post. What are you talking about? It is befuddling. I simply clarified that I do not have an angle that would therefore 'justify' my compassion towards the author. I am being objective. What segment of my post is bragging - indicating that my daughter would be a worthy candidate? And, having an awareness of the school's widely-reported toxicity qualifies as being "weirdly obsessed"? Opting out of application to avoid documented toxicity makes me "obnoxious"?

You sound triggered, rabid, and illogical.

Anonymous wrote:Just read her other essay.

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/10/cradle-to-cap-and-gown-the-prep-school-to-ivy-pipeline

"After attending public school through the eighth grade, I switched to an all-girls private school in Washington, D.C. Going from a class of 500 to a class of 74 was a shock, but the true jolt was adapting to the pure wealth and privilege surrounding me. I consider my family to be very well off, but my peers made me feel like a pauper. Although there are a fair number of students on financial aid at exclusive high schools, the majority of the student body comes from rich, well-connected families."

Absurd. Oblivious and absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I am genuinely stunned by the backlash the OP's posted piece has received. I have a completely opposing view of it. And let me clarify that I VERYYYYYY much dislike NCS, due to the culture. I would not even consider applying for my straight A, high SSAT, URM (uniquely diverse) daughter. Never! With that out of the way...

I fully understood the points being conveyed by the author. The young lady is simply at a crossroads of identity exploration, as many are at that age during freshman year of college. It does not strike me as whining, but rather seeking to carve her own path in life, and one that is valid and appreciated as her own instead of a mere replication of her preceding parents (+other family members). Being in that situation at any university would be difficult, and is only amplified at any Ivy. As much as I detest NCS, and the widely-reported negative experience of URM girls there (in large part, on account of girls like the author), I still appreciate her human experience and the challenges of maturation into adulthood. This seems to be my unpopular opinion (shrugs). Compassion for all human struggles, despite SES/privilege, goes a long way and can extend to struggles starkly different from our own. My immigrant parents would be her parents' literary foil, yet I cannot/wouldn't condemn her for struggling to establish herself as an individual. Just my thoughts.

You sound weirdly obsessed with NCS and weirdly braggy. My daughter is also OMG a URM and I can’t imagine being this obnoxious. Get over yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that the negative reaction here is way overblown. The essay does give me a touch of the ick, but so do about half the posts on this forum. It really just reads like an earnest journal entry that probably should have stayed in the journal.

Clearly these posters don’t realize a world that they are clearly really not part of. You have to be aware to realize what she’s talking about and I think many are not aware. There is “wealthy” and then there is wealthy combined with elite clubs, summering at the same places, knowing all of the same people at all travel destinations. It can be polarizing even to “wealthy” people. That is what she is talking about. It’s a culture And you can be “rich” technically and still come in to this kind of Uber wealth world and realize wow it’s on a whole different level than you could’ve ever imagined. Clearly you people trashing her are not part of that world so you don’t even know what you’re missing out on.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I am genuinely stunned by the backlash the OP's posted piece has received. I have a completely opposing view of it. And let me clarify that I VERYYYYYY much dislike NCS, due to the culture. I would not even consider applying for my straight A, high SSAT, URM (uniquely diverse) daughter. Never! With that out of the way...

I fully understood the points being conveyed by the author. The young lady is simply at a crossroads of identity exploration, as many are at that age during freshman year of college. It does not strike me as whining, but rather seeking to carve her own path in life, and one that is valid and appreciated as her own instead of a mere replication of her preceding parents (+other family members). Being in that situation at any university would be difficult, and is only amplified at any Ivy. As much as I detest NCS, and the widely-reported negative experience of URM girls there (in large part, on account of girls like the author), I still appreciate her human experience and the challenges of maturation into adulthood. This seems to be my unpopular opinion (shrugs). Compassion for all human struggles, despite SES/privilege, goes a long way and can extend to struggles starkly different from our own. My immigrant parents would be her parents' literary foil, yet I cannot/wouldn't condemn her for struggling to establish herself as an individual. Just my thoughts.