overheard two VCs the other day talking about their kids’ college admissions and hot damn the rich & influential are playing a whole different ballgame here which like i knew but hearing it in person is something else??
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on stanford: “so i have a friend who works in the admissions office and she owed me a favor, so i asked her if she’d look at my son’s essays, and she was like of course!”
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on harvard: “we don’t have any connection there, so i asked my friend who’s a trustee at the MIT medical school for her opinion, and we ended up not even applying because without a connection it’s just not worth it”
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apparently even rich legacy parents have to worry about their kids getting in because “we’re competing against the 7 figure donors”
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on college as an indicator of future hiring value: “the kids i find are the best aren’t even the stanford kids, it’s the PSDs. poor, smart, and driven” so like...if u had to work hard to get past financial disadvantages, know that ur story can be summed up in 3 letters
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