Do you think Bush is an alum interviewer?

j07
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:05:35 +0000

I think that the idea of you-dont-need-an-Ivy-to-be-successful is being unnecessarily mixed with the entire thing about your daughter not choosing Yale because of GWB. I understand now that that was a joke, but previously I was unaware of that. I don’t think that the issue of the GWB thing is related to the issue of Ivies not being the only path to success. Maybe they are distantly, in terms of your children’s decisions, but I don’t think that they are conceptually.

I understand completely that you don’t need to go to an Ivy or Stanford to be successful in life. I would actually say that I am not as caught up in the labels as many of my peers are. If THIS is why your children decided not to apply to Ivies or to Stanford, then that is completely legitimate and frankly none of our business. However, the way the information was presented originally (my D crossed Yale off the list early because of GWB) didn’t include that information.