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by earthscienceman 1746 days ago
I upvoted you just so that your ignorance can make a good discussion point.

There are an innumerable amount of "hard working" students that have all sorts of jobs in our economy. I'm now a 30-something tenured researcher at a world class instution, but at one point I was a 19 year old working swing shifts in a manufacturing plant while attending a world class university... because although I worked hard in high school just like you... I also desperately needed money. It would have been great if my greedy/zealous manager would have paid for my college, I was repairing the electronics and software for him at near minimum wage anyway.
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Supermancho 1746 days ago
> I upvoted you just so that your ignorance

I upvoted because he's correct. There's a staggering amount of denial in this thread. Statistically (and recently https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor...) the trends remain unchanged for Ivy league schools. The competition is high and the prejudices are baked in.

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rejectedandsad 1746 days ago
I worked hard, did well in high school, did everything right. Yet I had no shot at getting into any top schools or achieving anything close to what even the least accomplished top school admit has done in their life. Optimizing for a tiny fraction of elites while leaving the left of us to rot is the what's wrong with this country.
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rejectedandsad 1746 days ago
> while attending a world class university

Most of us can't attend "world class universities", we're inherently inferior. The vast majority, actually. So bringing up elite schools in this conversation is both irrelevant and in many cases just self aggrandizing.

I don't know how you twisted what I said into the idea that people from FCs can't go to top schools, but the reality is almost none (and probably close to none) do.

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