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[Kate @truthnow24]

@kitten_beloved You don’t have a clue. Regular classes drive the super gifted mad. Total waste of those with the highest potential to not address their needs.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@NYC2CA2VA @avidseries I hope you son attended a school he liked and I’m sure he did very, very well there. Give me scholars like your son any day over what now passes for an Ivy student.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@minilek @leechcheng They truly believe that nonsense. It’s all about the raw materials. Good students make a good school.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@DemonFramed Only if they are NGOs/non profits. Other high-paying jobs actually expect results.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@NYMag Nice try. The gifted are the best hope for society and should be nurtured n

[Kate @truthnow24]

This is the most accurate thing I’ve read on this topic. I know several similar kids from exam or other great schools who get passed over by colleges. They do fine (like you said, lots of Chicago and also places like Berkeley, full ride merit scholarships and maybe 1 Ivy out of a few applied to) but the Ivies choose adequate, relatively unaccomplished prep school kids who have used tutors, paid consultants and essay writers over students who are clearly more brilliant and capable.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@flowmalicious @benryanwriter @MercuriusFilius Sure. I know tons of these kids. Exam school kids are just as prepared but likely more so.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@benryanwriter @MercuriusFilius There are plenty of kids who did not pay $70k+ a year who are even better prepared but don’t get the same feeder privilege. Anyway, college is easy for a smart kid even if they went to a bad high school.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@sfmcguire79 I recall a recent grad telling me how proud he was to have received all A's. Maybe he didn't know everyone did.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@elonmusk I wish Grok would stop using Wikipedia as a source. Ruins so many of my inquiries.

[Kate @truthnow24]

Teaching my kids to swim was one of my least favorite parts of parenthood. Cold pool, constant vigilance and a fairly long endeavor. I always assumed it was as important as potty-training and just something a parent had to do. If colleges give Black parents a break and offer to teach their now adults how to swim, by all means take them up on that offer instead of crying racism.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@JoelWBerry @ChrisWillx Nah. My freakish Ivy classmates mostly have kids and cry about the state of the world most every day. They had no issues under Biden, but apparently the apocalypse is nigh under Trump. Only Obama can save us.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@iosif_lazaridis The study didn't answer the question but seems to blame Black's lower incomes on the fact that whites don't marry them. Maybe Black people don't want to marry white devils? Remember this "research" when someone moans about Trump defunding critical "science" at the Ivies.

[Kate @truthnow24]

Thank you for sharing!! Everyone was so excited about Sally K saying they don’t do rich kids any favors but not one word about the DEI advantage (and poor too). MIT is no exception to lowering standards although probably better than the Ivies bc the bar is higher for the coursework.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@charlesmurray Agree. Most don’t take advantage of this aspect or aren’t liked/respected enough by their classmates to receive any favors.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@SamMacD86958750 @DrClaytonForre1 @charlesmurray 700 is relatively dumb to all the super smart kids they don’t take because they aren’t institutional priorities. 10-20 ranked schools have very similar SATs, btw.

[Kate @truthnow24]

No offense, but your reference points are rather dated. The second tier 10-20 might often be better than Ivies as they are full of the white and Asian upper middle class smart kids who didn’t have sob stories. Some brilliant kids at the top schools, but they are a small percentage of the class.

[Kate @truthnow24]

@pmarca It’s why they are all miserable. It’s a concerted effort to destroy agency and make everyone dependent on Dems

[Kate @truthnow24]

@chamath @douglasritz Yes, and yet there are still those arguing that Harvard et al are so competitive because kids are smarter than they’ve ever been 😂

[Kate @truthnow24]

Paid people. I know of a student at one of these schools who didn’t even write his own apps for summer school programs. He’s at an Ivy now. One of his Ivy classmates had a paid counselor hook him up with a research job for his college app. Paid help works for college admission but ruins the child, IMO.