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• You sound bitter 1-18-2018 2:34pm
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• Yes. This is one of many ways the rich get richer. 1-18-2018 2:34pm
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  • This. 1-18-2018 2:35pm
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• You are warping my intent. You don't go to an Ivy League school just so you can make a lot of money. There is a value in being educated. 1-18-2018 2:35pm
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  • But you also don’t go to an Ivy League JUST for the educational value. 1-18-2018 2:37pm
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    • You could say that about any school 1-18-2018 2:39pm
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      • You don’t pay Ivy League prices at just any school. 1-18-2018 2:40pm
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        • Almost all the private colleges are more or less the same price. You don't pay more for Ivy league. And lots of people get financial aid too. 1-18-2018 2:40pm
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    • Not everyone going wants to be banker or lawyer in fact most people don't and won't make fortunes. 1-18-2018 2:40pm
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  • you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be educated. --Ivy League grad 1-18-2018 2:38pm
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• Life is a path. You can’t control everything 1-18-2018 2:38pm +1 like
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  • True. Admissions officers sometime intercede. 1-18-2018 2:39pm
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• How is it any sillier for a rich kid to go to an Ivy than a middle class kid to go to a private rather than state school? 1-18-2018 2:40pm
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  • IMO, it’s not. But those kids and families in both cases are hoping to get more out of the experience than just education. They want the connections. 1-18-2018 2:45pm
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    • Or just (one of) the best there is. Which is a perfectly fine reason. If you can afford it, and your kid can get in, why teh F not? 1-18-2018 2:46pm
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      • That’s the whole point though. Money can buy you things in life that just being smart cannot. 1-18-2018 2:49pm
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        • ^^^ AND with legacies, you don’t necessarily have to be smart to get into the best colleges either!!! 1-18-2018 2:51pm
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