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<p>I’m not sure about that I recently visited MIT alumni hosted event and most of the boys there were only talking about one thing and that was how much money they can make when they graduate. I would like my DD friends to enjoy the arts, theater, and travel around the world.</p>
<p>ARPMom- I have a few important questions for you before I can recommend a school for your daughter.
<p>OP are you from a country with a caste system ?</p>
<p>Oh, for pity’s sake. If your daughter isn’t old enough or smart enough to pick her own friends, she’s not old enough or smart enough to go to college.</p>
<p>OP- There really aren’t enough snobs at any of the three schools your D is considering. Why didn’t you make her apply to Harvard and Yale- much much better in the snob department.</p>
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<p>Problem is that ASU is still sending scholarship notices to DD even after the admissions are over.</p>
<p>But again I like **intellectual snobbism **too.</p>
<p>Isn’t there some sort of exclusive Swiss finishing school the OPs daughter could aspire to? Although her daughter hasn’t checked in here and perhaps she is a lovely young lady who is going to run from home-- screaming --straight into the arms of an impoverished tech-kids searching for his Mr. degree. Mr. Hobnob Snob that is…</p>
<p>Anyways, I digress, perhaps a finishing school for young women so she can learn to direct her servants, organize charity balls and smile condescendingly.</p>
<p>Based on the OP’s posting history, I’m betting she’s very closely related to ParentofIvyHope. </p>
<p>OP – Your daughter has earned a fistful of great acceptances. Yes, <em>she</em> is the one who has earned them, and she deserves to make her own decision. Please, let her go to MIT. She’ll have brilliant peers, many of whom will have attended fancy private high schools. And if you force her to go where you want her to go, everything and anything that goes wrong for the next four years, and conceivably beyond, will be your fault. Can you live with that?</p>
<p>Heh. I went to boarding school in Switzerland; is that close enough?</p>
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Jamiecakes, Californians have their own brand of snobbery, based precisely on their reputation for being laid-back, welcoming, and egalitarian. You’re such snobs, you actually think you’re not snobs. But don’t even try to deny it; you guys are the uber-snobs, the snobbe de la snobbe as it were.</p>
<p>I bow to you, and seek to run up and rub your elbow when you’re not looking. :D</p>
<p>wjb, that is EXACTLY what I was going to post!! Wasn’t that the mother that POIH said was wanting to move from California to where her D was going to go to college? The accepted schools are the same, although POIH said D was waitlisted, not accepted, to Stanford. But the other schools (Princeton, MIT) all fit.</p>
<p>OP, you just make yourself look more and more ridiculous. Sad. Unless $$$ is a factor, let your D make the decision where she wants to go to college.</p>
<p><<Problem is that ASU is still sending scholarship notices to DD even after the admissions are over.</p>
<p>But again I like intellectual snobbism too. …</p>
<p>Owlice: your boarding school only counts if you took Snob 101, 102, 103 AND completed the core curriculum that includes</p>
<p>Flower Arranging for those who order flowers and don’t actually arrange anything
How to talk to a Gardener, Maid or Au Pair
Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Snubbing
And a science course: A Study of Blue Blood.</p>
<p>intellectualism and snobbism are incompatible, so sorry.</p>
<p>OP are you from a country with a caste system ? </p>
<p>I doubt it, but I’m betting we’re all in the OP’s cast. And playing our roles marvelously , I might add. ;)</p>
<p>Okay, I was just about to end my afternoon tea break and get back to work, but now that this thread has taken a new turn, I might have to stick around, thanks to wjb and ColoradoMom.</p>
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<p>Heavens NO! You can’t rub my elbow! That is simply NOT done.</p>
<p>Someone please pass the hand (and elbow) sanitzer. Purell anyone?</p>
<p>Owlice not even close. You drink moonshine.:)</p>
<p>Gotta love the OP, in her post history she listed UCLA, USC and UCSD as safeties for her D.j</p>
<p>Hmph, UCSD, too close to Mexico.
USC, in da hood.
UCLA, Westwood, Brentwood, Beverly Hills…eh, no, too much “new money”!</p>
<p>lol, ontheedge! I’d make moonshine if I had the time for it! :D</p>
<p>If OP’s D were reading this now, she would probably cringe. No wonder she wants to go to MIT. It’s not what mommy wants.</p>