<p>lbridge, if they were on CC they would have long since learned the lessons they so clearly need to learn. Don't worry. </p>
<p>Now, if you hear one of them say, "love thy safety" it would be time to have the mods delete this thread! :)</p>
<p>Thank you, Bennington, I'll take my tea in the library this afternoon.</p>
<p>Tonight we having Bowdoin of rib for dinner, with a delicious Juniata sauce, and potatoes prepared Colby au-Groton, with a nice Pomona salad.. We've invited all the folks over from the Swarthmore nursing facility</p>
<p>I agree with mariela, really hard to believe someone thinks Middlebury or Wesleyan are second tier schools. On the other hand some people think that if you don't have $40k+ car you're a nobody. And I'm sure deep down inside some people really do think that whites are inherently superior (This is not my opinion, by all means, just an example).
Prejudice is human, unfortunately.</p>
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<p>Heck, a lot of people at my school label Amherst second-rate. For whatever reason the LACs just don't garner the same level of respect among the general population.</p>
<p>You mean, they won't fall to my feet in adoration when I tell them I study at Amherst. Oh no, I must have applied to the wrong places.
Well, I'll have to live with it I guess. :D</p>
<p>This whole thread remind me of a story I heard of a man who put himself into serious debt so his D could attend the Ivy "du jour". Now his daughter has graduated with a fine degree and is waitressing in a mediocre restaurant while she figures out "what she wants to do with her life". He,meanwhile, is trying to figure out how he will ever recoup his losses.</p>
<p>Well, another war story: a woman at work told me my son could transfer if he wanted to! She'd never heard of Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Dinner at the Swarthmore Nursing Home sounds good to me Mini, I really don't feel like cooking tonight. Is it formal or casual?</p>
<p>Oh, no, the idea was to let them out and serve them the Bowdoin of beef at the Haverford Mews, along with some pickled Bryn Mawr. The Vassars would be attending, but apparently they are being questioned by Homeland Security.</p>
<p>Oh, I guess I'll have to call take out! btw, I just got a call from a WES parent asking me if I had any questions or if I need any help with anything. Looks like I'll have a new family for the next four years.. YAY!!!!</p>
<p>Hazmat, I loved your post. It is a fine line to walk: to support a child who's willing to risk failure in order to reach, while appreciating (and communicating) the great value and opportunites afforded at other, perhaps more attainable settings.</p>
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Last night I saw the reality show The Scholar (which embodied everything wrong with high-stakes stress-filled adolescence), the best part was the founder of the supporting Broad (I believe) foundation that in one spot said "I attended the Detroit public schools, graduated from MSU, and founded two Fortune 500 companies, ...getting an education is important." I remember thinking, "I wonder how many Ivy graduates work for him?"
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idad, this is hysterical. I know someone who works for Eli Broad. He's a helluva guy. And a close member of my family works for him. And she went to, hold on a moment I swear I am not joking or saying this for a punchline,</p>
<p>WESLEYAN!</p>
<p>Cross my fingers hope to die...OP, here's something else to clench your fists and raise them over your head about:).</p>
<p>This reminds me of a girl whom I went to school with. In elementary school, her parents kept saying how she would go to an Ivy... and that really didn't change. Come senior year, she enrolled at (without being too specific) a New England state school. Parents quieted down considerably.</p>
<p>The good thing about CC is that I've been able to hear about a lot of really good schools that you otherwise would not know about. Will never forget a roommate saying that she went to (Excellent LAC that is not AWS) but that "no one has ever heard of it." I think I said something about "Isn't that one of those 'hidden gem' schools that everyone who has heard of it thinks is really good, but no one else knows about?" </p>
<p>Rambling over. :)</p>
<p>Every family has a bragger. My SIL bragged to us how Wellesley had "given her daughter" $12,000 for her freshman year in aid. Of course she made it SOUND like merit aid. It wasn't until years later that we found out that Wellesley doesn't give merit aid...(found out when nephew her brother graduated from college and Wellesley "took away" her aid).</p>
<p>Aries
Can't agree with you more. I've learned so much from this board. I grew up knowing the east coast LACs/privates, but Pomona, Caltech, Carleton, etc. were schools I learned more about here. I also learned to try and warn people about the un-likelihood of their child getting into highly selective schools with mediocre stats & ECs, just because their parents love them so. Until one reads CC, they don't realize how many kids are truly special.
In the long run, its the silent smile one wears inside when they feel their child is accepted at a school that is a good fit.</p>