" But IT IS A BETTER SCHOOL, and if hurts someone’s feelings to hear that,"- “feelings” are soooo irrelevant to this discusiion, but “hurting of the wallet” is not, at least not in our family. We do not belong in the same financial category as Gates, Trump, Clinton. But even if we did, we do not have an Ivy within 4 hours of driving from us, so we took what we had and it worked perfectly. I have nothing against anybody in a world attending at ivy’s, kudos to them for leaving behind lots of Merit scholarships for others. Not sure about other people feelings, but I am very thankful to all of you who sent your kids to Ivy’s and my wallet is also very thankful and my kid is the most happy of us all as she is among 16% who graduated from the medical school without any debt. Huge THANK YOU!"
No offense meant here @MiamiDAP , but I often struggle to track your arguments.
My response in the post from which you’re quoting relates to a side argument in what has now become a marathon thread. But your confusion does demonstrate a point I’ve been making: that what one can or wants to afford is one subject, and whether a kid is as well off at one school or another is another subject and, finally, whether one school is “better” than another is yet a third subject. Sometimes, they get conflated here.
But I will say that hyperbole seems to accompany much of your content. Clearly, one needn’t be in the same financial category is Bill Gates to send their kid to a private college, and the Clintons, fwiw, really don’t belong on a list of wealth with Bill.
Also, most people don’t make the decision to attend or not attend an Ivy League (or comparable) school based on a 4 hour drive test. That’s a new one for me.
Are you sarcastically thanking those “other people” who sent their kids to elite schools because if they hadn’t tehir kids would have been where your daughter attended pushed her out of the way for merit scholarships? Is that what you’re saying? Because that’s what they kind of means. LOL. Re-read your post man.