<p>“Miami, I hope your D’s attitudes towards everyone who went to “prestigious” schools isn’t as bad as yours”
- I never mentioned this at all, this seems to be some "bad translation’ of what I said. I said that some are so used to deal strictly with “superior intellectuallity” of a very homogenious crowd of the student body at top colleges that they would put a regular person down at any ocasion. But I said “some”, not everyone. There are very mature and easy going people who graduted from these top places, and this is who my D. wants to be with, no matter what was their UG. She definitely would stay away from anybody who would not let her to open her mouth during group discussions (possibly because they are so “superior” that nobody else is important there). D. has lots of friends in her Med. school class and I am sure that many are from Harvard and such as her class has many from Elite colleges, which you find in any Med. School class as those kids know how to work hard and get results and that was original reason why they were so carefully pre-selected at HYP, Berkeley, etc. But they did not have many chances to mature at this places since the crowd there is not as diverse (I am not talking about racial or socioeconomic diversity, I am talking about intellectual diversity, personality difversity). These places want to have kids who produce academic results, very focused, intense. They want to report high acceptance rates to Med. Schools, Law Schools, etc. At public state school, kids who really seek diversity can easily go outside of their Honors colleges and pre-med communities and connect with different type of people, they learned how to talk to them and enjoy conversations outside of intense acdemics of pre-meds. Now that D. is a bit more familiar with at least one private UG (which was her original #1 choice for UG, eventually she ended up at her #2),. she simply said, “if I went there, I would be in the same type of crowd as in my HS” (small private), she just wanted to widen up her social horizon outside of kids whose parents are primarily MDs, lawyers, businees executives,…etc. which was primarily the case at her HS.</p>