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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...sounds like lots of posts from entitled and dull rich white kids kvetching about admissions, rather than working hard and and being talented and sharp like their indian and chinese friends

I wouldn't be surprised if many of the posters you mocked are actually non-white.....

In fact, it's racist to assume they are white. The message is that POC don't care about college admissions?

Went right to the racist card? Weak. Indian and Chinese, not POC, is what was mentioned. Long and observant look at indian and chinese communities vs high achieving whites shows that the I and C communities work harder because their families a generally insecure and have a sort of chip on their shoulder. The top 10 shcools would be 50% asian if admissions were left to proper metrics, rather than diversity legacy sports initiatives. Oh the thought of ivy campuses with 50% asians would be SHOCKING to entitled elites who slither their way into admission without demonstrating equal academic achievement to their asian friends. Try not to melt with the so called racist overtones of this post. Just let the thoughts sink in as you bask in your privilege.

Also, good advise to all you youngsters: despite current trends many of you who are money motivated will not achieve your financial potential in engineering. There are way too many exceptional foreign engineers who come here from schools like IIT in india. BTW, IIT grads are the brainiest people in the world; they make MIT people look SOFT. Medical, law, finance, and even dental are far easier way to make the kind of money that is commiserate to your abilities, without the continuous failures (and pesky competition) that will ultimately happen if you go toe to toe with IIT type peoples. Best of luck, ya'll.

IIT grads are no doubt smart, but I will not go as far as saying they are "the brainiest people in the world". There are many very smart Chinese and South Korean grads as well.

Anonymous wrote:Merit includes achievements in athletics and other extra-curriculars. It's myopic to suggest otherwise.

Anonymous wrote:American education system is not purely merit based nor its economy capitalistic. We are just conned into thinking so.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...sounds like lots of posts from entitled and dull rich white kids kvetching about admissions, rather than working hard and and being talented and sharp like their indian and chinese friends

I wouldn't be surprised if many of the posters you mocked are actually non-white.....

In fact, it's racist to assume they are white. The message is that POC don't care about college admissions?

Went right to the racist card? Weak. Indian and Chinese, not POC, is what was mentioned. Long and observant look at indian and chinese communities vs high achieving whites shows that the I and C communities work harder because their families a generally insecure and have a sort of chip on their shoulder. The top 10 shcools would be 50% asian if admissions were left to proper metrics, rather than diversity legacy sports initiatives. Oh the thought of ivy campuses with 50% asians would be SHOCKING to entitled elites who slither their way into admission without demonstrating equal academic achievement to their asian friends. Try not to melt with the so called racist overtones of this post. Just let the thoughts sink in as you bask in your privilege.

Also, good advise to all you youngsters: despite current trends many of you who are money motivated will not achieve your financial potential in engineering. There are way too many exceptional foreign engineers who come here from schools like IIT in india. BTW, IIT grads are the brainiest people in the world; they make MIT people look SOFT. Medical, law, finance, and even dental are far easier way to make the kind of money that is commiserate to your abilities, without the continuous failures (and pesky competition) that will ultimately happen if you go toe to toe with IIT type peoples. Best of luck, ya'll.

IIT grads are no doubt smart, but I will not go as far as saying they are "the brainiest people in the world". There are many very smart Chinese and South Korean grads as well.

Oxbridge white guy here who went head to head with IIT guy in grad school. We’d both say the same thing about each other. Kyodai, Todai, Sorbonne/escole not bad either.

But. Those are all TEST/GRADES/MERIT based admit systems. Heck, my uni interview was a 2 hour long maths test in a blackboard.

The American uni admit system is a total crapshoot, and getting more so.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...sounds like lots of posts from entitled and dull rich white kids kvetching about admissions, rather than working hard and and being talented and sharp like their indian and chinese friends

I wouldn't be surprised if many of the posters you mocked are actually non-white.....

In fact, it's racist to assume they are white. The message is that POC don't care about college admissions?

Went right to the racist card? Weak. Indian and Chinese, not POC, is what was mentioned. Long and observant look at indian and chinese communities vs high achieving whites shows that the I and C communities work harder because their families a generally insecure and have a sort of chip on their shoulder. The top 10 shcools would be 50% asian if admissions were left to proper metrics, rather than diversity legacy sports initiatives. Oh the thought of ivy campuses with 50% asians would be SHOCKING to entitled elites who slither their way into admission without demonstrating equal academic achievement to their asian friends. Try not to melt with the so called racist overtones of this post. Just let the thoughts sink in as you bask in your privilege.

Also, good advise to all you youngsters: despite current trends many of you who are money motivated will not achieve your financial potential in engineering. There are way too many exceptional foreign engineers who come here from schools like IIT in india. BTW, IIT grads are the brainiest people in the world; they make MIT people look SOFT. Medical, law, finance, and even dental are far easier way to make the kind of money that is commiserate to your abilities, without the continuous failures (and pesky competition) that will ultimately happen if you go toe to toe with IIT type peoples. Best of luck, ya'll.

IIT grads are no doubt smart, but I will not go as far as saying they are "the brainiest people in the world". There are many very smart Chinese and South Korean grads as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I was directed here by the article I read today on The Atlantic. Hard to believe that you don't recognize how entitled and yet desperate so many of you sound. Do you realize that it's not always about the thousands of dollars that you spent on prep schools? Not to mention the pressure that you place upon your children and the school teachers and the counselors who help to navigate their college applications? I can't believe that you would put this kind of pressure upon your children. Think about the demands that you place upon your kids that likely make them feel like failures or fear failure at such an early and impressionable age. So what if they don't get into Harvard? We live in a small town in the North Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest. Farming country. My children grew up like real kids. They roamed farmland and played and ran quads and swam in lakes and rivers and fished and went crabbing and clamming and hiked and explored the great outdoors. They attended public schools. They all did well. Our youngest took a year and a half off from school after graduation. He didn't know what he wanted to BE. After that break, he attended a community college and graduated in the top 1% of the college. Phi Theta Kappa. He received offers from several Ivy League schools, without even having to put in an application. He was almost 22 when he graduated from a "mere" community college and was then accepted into a prestigious Engineering University in Colorado. Google the best Engineering School that you never heard of. Yes, it's that good. They don't have to advertise. He was one of 14 transfer students from WA State accepted into the Colorado School of Mines that year. It's the Ivy League Engineering University of the West. Our three older children all graduated from great Universities and are all well employed and happy in their lives. What is the goal? The goal is to give our children the best experience, the happiest childhoods. To encourage them in their interests and their endeavors, and to let them know that we, their parents, have faith in them and support them in what means the MOST to them. It's not all about you. Quit trying to curate your children's childhoods and let them go free. Take a deep breath and just let your children BE.

Bless you. The culture in DC is terrible for the kids, and terrible for the nation.

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Anonymous wrote:Brainiest is fine to get ahead if you’re not looking to get into management, but at the end of the day, soft skills are what secures the truly big salaries.

And everyone knows "truly big salaries" are what really matters in life. Actually, "truly big salaries" go to people who are willing to do truly boring things.