As someone who's doing fine but not at the top (well educated but renters with an HHI under $150k), the sense of scarcity well-off people feel for their kids is fascinating. I worry about stuff like how climate chamge is going to change the world for my kid, but not that he'll go to a slightly less competitive school and wind up an average adult like me.

The idea that the "adversity score" is going to be meaningfully different between the best schools in MoCo or whatever and the ones with average schools and cheaper McMansions is also kind of funny.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000
You might have hated Obama but everyone had credentials appropriate for the job.

Don'tcha know, the authoritarians and incompetent are from the other political party!

Seems like they pretty much are all Republicans, given the jackbooted clown show running the US right now.

Anonymous wrote:Your kids, whiners of DCUM, will be fine. If they don’t got to HYPS they will not end up homeless bums. Why all this angst when you know your kid just by virtue of you being here typing on this site, which shows you are informed andmengaged, will be fine?

And this is the bottom line.

Everyone knows this is an additional data point that does not replace the academic portions of the SAT. But when UMC people see their privilege infringed on even a tiny bit, they completely lose their shit.

I expect most people flipping out about this on DCUM are:

1. Rich enough to buy their kid a great college education, even w/o a useful "adversity score" and even if it's not at an Ivy

2. But not quite rich enough to sidle their way in through a big donation

3. Overcompensating like hell for their own relentless sense of inadequacy.

(Signed, parent of a white male LMC kid who won't get an adversity score, won't be able to afford an Ivy, but will likely do just fine at a state school)

Please excuses typos on my phone. There are many

It’s not political at all. Trump hired people who did not have the educational or experience background for there jobs they took. This was regardless of race or sex and most of the embarrassing moments of the administration have been caused by this flaw. Bush, Clinton and Reagan in general hires people with experience and/or educational background in the jobs they were hired to perform. This reduced connection hiring to at least people who were plausibly equipped to do the job. Jared Kushner, Betsy Devos and many others are in over their heads and drowning.

Anonymous wrote:+1000
You might have hated Obama but everyone had credentials appropriate for the job.

Don'tcha know, the authoritarians and incompetent are from the other political party!

+1000
You might have hated Obama but everyone had credentials appropriate for the job.

Very hard to get diverse managers to hire mediocre or under performing connected white kids. Your approach is a dated strategy relying on connections you may not have, especially after Trumps army. Of old white men is cleared out one way or another.

DC liberals like affirmative action except when that "preferred" canidate takes their position.
Liberal hypocrisy at its finest.

Anonymous wrote:I was talking about this with my husband and he just shrugged his shoulders and reminded me that when the time comes, he'll pull every connection he has to get our kids good internships and first jobs. And he has a lot of connections. He does people a lot of favors in order for them to return the favor someday.

At the end of the day, that's what matters most. More even than where you went to college or how you did there.

Since Caesar lectured in the Forum, it's not what you know, it's who you know.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was talking about this with my husband and he just shrugged his shoulders and reminded me that when the time comes, he'll pull every connection he has to get our kids good internships and first jobs. And he has a lot of connections. He does people a lot of favors in order for them to return the favor someday.

At the end of the day, that's what matters most. More even than where you went to college or how you did there.

Unless you don't have a sugar daddy. Then where you went and how you did there matters a whole lot. And that is the case for 95% of students.

What does this mean?

A lot of people get their first jobs through connections (maybe even most?). This can't be news to you.

Yep. My mother knew a Cabinet Secretary who got me into the agency. That compensated for top 60 law school. Fast forward 23 years later and I am the top lawyer at a financial company. I just got my high school kid an internship with a US Senator for who I raised money for so they can go to a top college

You have posted before, I think. You really have a chip on your shoulder about your law school, no?

Your kids, whiners of DCUM, will be fine. If they don’t got to HYPS they will not end up homeless bums. Why all this angst when you know your kid just by virtue of you being here typing on this site, which shows you are informed and
engaged, will be fine?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was talking about this with my husband and he just shrugged his shoulders and reminded me that when the time comes, he'll pull every connection he has to get our kids good internships and first jobs. And he has a lot of connections. He does people a lot of favors in order for them to return the favor someday.

At the end of the day, that's what matters most. More even than where you went to college or how you did there.

Unless you don't have a sugar daddy. Then where you went and how you did there matters a whole lot. And that is the case for 95% of students.

What does this mean?

A lot of people get their first jobs through connections (maybe even most?). This can't be news to you.

Yep. My mother knew a Cabinet Secretary who got me into the agency. That compensated for top 60 law school. Fast forward 23 years later and I am the top lawyer at a financial company. I just got my high school kid an internship with a US Senator for who I raised money for so they can go to a top college

Anonymous wrote:I was talking about this with my husband and he just shrugged his shoulders and reminded me that when the time comes, he'll pull every connection he has to get our kids good internships and first jobs. And he has a lot of connections. He does people a lot of favors in order for them to return the favor someday.

At the end of the day, that's what matters most. More even than where you went to college or how you did there.

Trollin trollin trollin

Anonymous wrote:I was talking about this with my husband and he just shrugged his shoulders and reminded me that when the time comes, he'll pull every connection he has to get our kids good internships and first jobs. And he has a lot of connections. He does people a lot of favors in order for them to return the favor someday.

At the end of the day, that's what matters most. More even than where you went to college or how you did there.

Good luck with that plan.