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I disagree because you’re succeeding at the expense of the rest of us. Have you considered 99.5% of people will never step one foot on an elite school campus? I

I disagree because you’re succeeding at the expense of the rest of us. Have you considered 99.5% of people will never step one foot on an elite school campus? I’m sick of society being catered to your whims while the rest of us are dismissed as stupid and innately less qualified. Objectively speaking, my life is absolutely terrible BECAUSE of elites like you hoarding opportunity and people like me getting nothing because I only got a 1500/1600 and didn’t know about research opportunities in high school. I’m barely 25 but my life is already irretrievably broken because the elites want to segregate themselves from “my kind” so bad.

torstenvl 5y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way. Before you make up your mind, I hope you consider that this is what I grew up in: https://imgur.com/Hw9zH9j https://imgur.com/Hw9zH9j I worked hard in high school to get a scholarship to a third-tier state school, where I worked hard to get good grades and improve my logical reasoning skills enough to do very well on the LSAT. Nothing about society was ever catered for me. I had to fight very, very hard. And yes, I know others work just as hard and don't get the same opportunities. I'm not claiming the current system is perfect. "Ya gotta take care of business, ya gotta go to school, ya gotta get good grades to even have a chance... I'm talkin' about a chance! You might not make it, but you sure as hell won't if ya don't try." ~Hillbilly Elegy For all its imperfections, it's a lot better than the proposed alternative.
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  I see. My apologies, I should have specified “undergraduate” because that’s what makes the most difference in my particular field (not law). I have no idea what law progression is like after undergrad or what it takes to get into an elite law school that can offer upward mobility, but I do know it’s not uncommon to go to a top tier law school after a mediocre undergrad (Tim Kaine comes to mind off the top of my head) I personally know a handful of people from my undergrad at HLS (though they were full scholarship students who were overqualified to go to my undergrad and stayed away from the the simpletons like me).
fallingknife 5y ago
If you think your life is irretrievably broken because you don't get to be rich, your problem is not lack of money.
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  It’s not just that. It’s knowing that whatever I do I cannot have social mobility or the happiness the typical Googler* has because of the state of my life from 14-17 (and the state of my genes that determine intelligence, which is more relevant than school for Google in particular).

torstenvl 5y ago

I'm sorry you feel that way. Before you make up your mind, I hope you consider that this is what I grew up in: https://imgur.com/Hw9zH9j https://imgur.com/Hw9zH9j I worked hard in high school to get a scholarship to a third-tier state school, where I worked hard to get good grades and improve my logical reasoning skills enough to do very well on the LSAT. Nothing about society was ever catered for me. I had to fight very, very hard. And yes, I know others work just as hard and don't get the same opportunities. I'm not claiming the current system is perfect. "Ya gotta take care of business, ya gotta go to school, ya gotta get good grades to even have a chance... I'm talkin' about a chance! You might not make it, but you sure as hell won't if ya don't try." ~Hillbilly Elegy For all its imperfections, it's a lot better than the proposed alternative.

rejectedandsad 5y ago
I see. My apologies, I should have specified “undergraduate” because that’s what makes the most difference in my particular field (not law). I have no idea what law progression is like after undergrad or what it takes to get into an elite law school that can offer upward mobility, but I do know it’s not uncommon to go to a top tier law school after a mediocre undergrad (Tim Kaine comes to mind off the top of my head) I personally know a handful of people from my undergrad at HLS (though they were full scholarship students who were overqualified to go to my undergrad and stayed away from the the simpletons like me).

fallingknife 5y ago

If you think your life is irretrievably broken because you don't get to be rich, your problem is not lack of money.

rejectedandsad 5y ago
It’s not just that. It’s knowing that whatever I do I cannot have social mobility or the happiness the typical Googler* has because of the state of my life from 14-17 (and the state of my genes that determine intelligence, which is more relevant than school for Google in particular).