People are asking what happened with my daughter. She got in. She had many strengths. She wrote a brilliant essay on what it's like to grow up half-Asian in the U.S. (so much for Dad's advice). She was a legacy candidate, which counterbalanced the too-many-Asians problem.
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I am convinced that education at almost all of the elite schools is seriously broken, and that my kids would genuinely get more of what they need from college at a good state school far from the Northeast or West Coast.
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Thank you so much for this tweet, Dr. Murray. I have a high school junior, and we are having this exact discussion. I shall use your words to bolster my case!
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Good luck. I'm so down on the elite schools that today I would actually refuse to pay my child's tuition for one--something I couldn't have imagined doing when my kids were 18.
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Thank you, Dr. Murray. Luckily, she's a very good kid, and she is willing to listen. Once we start visiting, I rather suspect that my conservative teen from Mayberry, Flyover Country will have a more realistic view of what life on campus might actually look like.
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I work with ivy leaguers who bust on me for my state school engineering degree and then I remind them my ROI was 5x better, as we’re all at the same point in our careers now. I think school matters way more for that first job and disappears when job performance kicks in as factor
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Harvard doesn’t provide an education. It provides access. If being white is like playing a video game on easy setting. A Harvard degree is like playing w/ unlimited lives and multiple cheat codes.
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I’m telling my kids to avoid college and find careers in the trades.
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Oh? Is this to avoid debt?
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Avoid debt and have an actually secure future, with interesting jobs rather than becoming a desk drone. Sitting at a desk all day sucks.
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Echoing "Real education".
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University of Pittsburghs Honors College was the best!
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Agreed. My two girls attended Auburn, one married, both uninfected, son to GA. Tech, then elite SMU, 2 degrees, infected.
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http://Agree.My daughter is in the honors program at Christopher Newport University. Much happier than friends at CNU sister school, William & Mary
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