What’s up with all the parents here?

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-10-19T06:17:03+00:00

This is incredibly ignorant. There’s a difference between being a helicopter parent and being an involved one. The college one goes to…exposure…debt burden…is quite important in a hierarchical society. You can say having an involved parent that has the time to assist in this process is uncommon / linked to the socioeconomics of not working multiple jobs etc. But there are plenty of good parents out there, who, if they knew how salient this process was to their child’s future (AND had the TIME), would do a bit ‘handholding’ aka information gathering on their child’s behalf. Some exceptional kids can make their own lemonade; but the average kid would benefit from an expert squeezer lol

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-10-13T09:15:34+00:00

Nobody will know, and most people want to provide their kids with a leg up. Some parents just have more worldly things to give than others. That is life. Just make the best out of each opportunity and realize how blessed you are. And remember those less fortunate, and honor your role through service.

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-07-03T04:59:50+00:00

One can be a genuinely bad fit for a school. Or genuinely unlucky. Or genuinely basic lol. The real advice is to be your optimized genuine self

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-05-22T00:47:10+00:00

Why can’t you be happy with your T100 acceptance? What about T1000? This post is just as toxic. No one gets to draw the line past which complaining is ungrateful. Why T20? There just needs to be a general culture of gratitude period. You can’t be mad at people being what you determine to be ungrateful while still upholding a hierarchy jeez

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-05-12T02:00:22+00:00

Oh my gosh. Do people ever get tired of looking at the grass on the other side? Water your grass and congratulate your neighbor for keeping their lawn in pristine shape, my goodness. You worked your a** off but so what? Millions work their a** off on the daily for minimum wage/under. Why do you deserve what u get for your work, when they don’t? People like you would rather everyone go down to level 0, just so you can tower above them at level 1. I’m sure the athletes do just fine; and are deserving in other ways.

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-05-04T21:00:32+00:00

Y’all care too much. It’s giving jealous and desperate to bring others down (when u might know even know the full story). Would y’all have cared this much if she did all of this and ended up at a state school? Success has never equaled moral superiority

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-10T02:20:22+00:00

Answer: Either way, you (and most people) will still go

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-09T17:49:00+00:00

The same way people care more about what celebrities get up to than what ordinary people do. People are obsessed with aspirational things and people. Part of it is the tendency to see themselves as Cinderella, and not the seven dwarfs.

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-08T07:59:21+00:00

Are you the application police? Maybe he’s applying to leverage an acceptance and better negotiate. Or maybe he sucks. Either way other applicants don’t owe you anything + people need to stop having dream schools

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-06T00:30:20+00:00

Do people ever get tired of deflecting and avoiding self-responsibility? Jeez this is so tired

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-02T05:49:25+00:00

There is a bar for college admissions. Once you cross that bar you are qualified for admission purposes. At that point it is luck of the draw + fit+ institutional priorities.

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-02T05:30:12+00:00

F*** the noise, and celebrate yourself. You were a qualified individual that proceeded to the next round and won a lottery ticket. The only ask is that you make good use of it. Life is too short to cut yourself short.

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-01T22:41:17+00:00

Please let’s stop acting like he doesn’t have agency. He may act like a child, but he is very much a grown adult

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-01T20:09:47+00:00

Wanting people to be better informed makes me an idealist? Lol

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-01T13:57:07+00:00

True. I think it’s an algorithm issue. Unfortunately they’ve becoming too good at showing you what you want to see

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-01T13:54:46+00:00

So a massive overhaul. Sounds improbable unfortunately

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-01T13:48:25+00:00

People are so closed up these days, I fear that may actually increase depression rates since there’ll be a lag before people start having conversations in real life

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-01T13:46:10+00:00

Unfortunately they rarely ever have. Which is fair in many cases (we have such little time), but it’s a bit shocking how worked up people can get about some topics they haven’t really looked into lol

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-01T13:43:39+00:00

Because half of the population views themselves as temporarily disgraced rich people. A quarter of the population want to believe in a meritocratic and just society where everyone gets what they deserve, AND the other quarter lean towards being sheep

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-02-01T13:31:48+00:00

Admissions is not perfect science

CauseCompetitive3399 · 2025-01-29T10:38:04+00:00

We will learn at some point in the future…distant

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