I agree with @lilyesh and @BrwnBoy0302 in this case. Though you didn’t ask for my input, I would still like to give my two cents. First, we are mostly applicants (12-17 year old TEENAGERS) and in the case we aren’t, then we are usually just parents of teens with not enough knowledge on @jackb192 's case. We can give advice, but it should 100% be taken with a whole shaker of salt and we are NOT AT ALL better than any financial advisor he would be able to hire. We are genuinely advising him not to ask random strangers (who are mostly just young teens) for financial advice, because what we give him is most likely not going to be the best advice.
The only thing I agree with you here is that OP should not have come across as stuck-up. As most of us know very little about each other, it is very easy to judge a person based on their attitude towards others in their posts and replies.
From what I see, you are no admissions officer, so you have absolutely no right to say who gets in, and what you said to lilyesh is very insulting. Maybe in your eyes, OP has better stats and EC’s than lilyesh, but admissions are not just your SSAT score and how many sports you did. After I got to know lilyesh more, I can tell that her personality is extremely likeable. There is no “hard truth” to what you said, and it just seemed like an opportunity you took to jab at lilyesh for a genuine reply to help OP.