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re: Would you fund your kid's IVY league education if you could?
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:39 pm to mattytiger123
Posted on 11/30/22 at 11:39 pm to mattytiger123
30 years ago, yes. Today? frick no.
Stanford, MIT are all just as good. In addition, the big 2 (Harvard & Yale) have really declined on a social scale in the last decade - so many cucks & libs.
Money isn’t everything,
especially when they are trying to indoctrinate.
Stanford, MIT are all just as good. In addition, the big 2 (Harvard & Yale) have really declined on a social scale in the last decade - so many cucks & libs.
Money isn’t everything,
especially when they are trying to indoctrinate.
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Posted on 12/1/22 at 12:02 am to STLJ
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Who downvoted me? I’m a plant operator and pull well over 6 figures.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 12:04 am to mattytiger123
My son has a similar resume. 35 ACT, national merit finalist 4.5 gpa and some extra curricula’s. He’s not even interested in the $$$ schools. He’s looking at the $$$ the state schools in the region are offering and the six figures in his 529 and salivating. Probably going to Bama for the 5 year full ride STEM/MBA program. If he were interested in IVY or one of the more prestigious schools I imagine we’d figure out how to make it work. I’d support what he wanted to do and has earned hoping he’d stay STEM but that’s not the way his mind works.
This post was edited on 12/1/22 at 12:11 am
Posted on 12/1/22 at 12:06 am to mattytiger123
What schools do they have in mind for him?
Posted on 12/1/22 at 12:19 am to hubertcumberdale
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willing to pay for a school they deem worthy over the most prestigious/well connected schools in the country/world bc fox news told them they were bad
And the parents are the brainwashed ones huh
Posted on 12/1/22 at 1:30 am to Cobra Tate
My son applied to only one IV and didn't get in. If he did get in, I would have happily paid. He did get accepted to a couple of small private colleges up North and is enrolled in the one that offered more scholarship money than the other. (The other was actually more than IV)
Funny thing to me; his high school guidance counselor for college was a Harvard grad. What a waste of an education.
Funny thing to me; his high school guidance counselor for college was a Harvard grad. What a waste of an education.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 1:45 am to TutHillTiger
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Yeah and there really is no pre-law,
Right, I mean he wants to go to law school, not that there’s a pre law curriculum that’s equivalent to pre-med. Though there is an optional pre-law minor/concentration at many institutions.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 2:59 am to mattytiger123
If my kids got accepted to an Ivy League or any elite school I would absolutely pay for it. It would be pretty shitty to hold your kid back from success.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 4:28 am to mattytiger123
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He wants to major in Philosophy for Pre-Law.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 5:33 am to mattytiger123
I think his parents should spend more time steering him towards a better career path than worrying about liberal indoctrination. I think the latter is somewhat overblown and if the kid has a good head on his shoulders, he can get past it.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 5:46 am to mattytiger123
I assume, in this scenario, your nephew's parents are rich enough where payment is required. Princeton is totally free (tuition, room & board) if a family makes up to $100k LINK. I'm pretty sure Harvard and Yale operate in a similar way.
I have a cousin who graduated from Yale within the last 10 years. She comes from a conservative family, very religious. I believe she attended some summer math programs either there or at MIT while she was in high school. Her faith didn't get shaken, she didn't become some sort of "woke liberal".
At the end of the day, if I had a child who was accepted to an Ivy I would send them. It opens so many doors that most likely wouldn't be available to them otherwise.
I have a cousin who graduated from Yale within the last 10 years. She comes from a conservative family, very religious. I believe she attended some summer math programs either there or at MIT while she was in high school. Her faith didn't get shaken, she didn't become some sort of "woke liberal".
At the end of the day, if I had a child who was accepted to an Ivy I would send them. It opens so many doors that most likely wouldn't be available to them otherwise.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 6:13 am to NPComb
quote:are you saying you wouldn't send your kids to an ivy because they're too woke/lib, but would send your kids to stanford or mit?
Stanford, MIT
Posted on 12/1/22 at 6:19 am to mattytiger123
Depends on the degree program kid was interested in.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 6:28 am to SammyTiger
My thoughts are it’s your sisters and brother in laws money.
We don’t have the right to tell them how to spend it any more than we have a say in choosing the proper school for your nephew.
Sounds like they are willing to fund his education with a few conditions.
Your nephew has a decision to make.
We don’t have the right to tell them how to spend it any more than we have a say in choosing the proper school for your nephew.
Sounds like they are willing to fund his education with a few conditions.
Your nephew has a decision to make.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 6:39 am to mattytiger123
Your sister sounds insane
Posted on 12/1/22 at 7:17 am to mattytiger123
If your nephew is a conservative with a strong will, he’ll thrive in knocking down unsupported leftist opinions in these universities. He should read about Peter Thiel’s college experience. That dude was the smartest person in the room and actively was throwing blows against his entire class and the entire teaching staff and well known for being the smartest person in the room at Stanford, despite being a staunch conservative
But your sister and her husband are naive if they don’t agree with your opinion that most good universities are going to attempt to indoctrinate, especially in philosophy
But your sister and her husband are naive if they don’t agree with your opinion that most good universities are going to attempt to indoctrinate, especially in philosophy
Posted on 12/1/22 at 7:27 am to mattytiger123
Yes, without question.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 8:23 am to NotoriousFSU
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so does the kid know about indoctrination
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If not, and they’ve been raised conservative
Posted on 12/1/22 at 8:53 am to mattytiger123
Probably not and for the exact same reasons. In all fairness, nearly all college campuses are turning into indoctrination camp infected with liberal mind rot.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 8:55 am to Sheep
If anybody gonna indoctrinate my kid, it's gonna be me.
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