Nah, I'm not working class and neither is my wife. We're professional children of professionals, but neither went to an Ivy. Both good athletes, but DIII not DI

Nah, I'm not working class and neither is my wife. We're professional children of professionals, but neither went to an Ivy. Both good athletes, but DIII not DI. Neither of my 2 kids, both with honestly ridiculously good grades (one had perfect ACT too) and what I thought were decent extracurriculars (all-state bands, scholastic divisional all-stars) got into even what I once considered second rate schools (Tufts, Bowdoin, Carnegie-Mellon, etc) Now, we didn't do any of the paid college admissions stuff, first because I still can't believe a valedictorian with a perfect ACT should need anything more to get into Brown, let alone BU, and secondly because I'm philosophically opposed to the whole "top college" thing anyway Let's be honest, they're kicking ass at the schools they got into, and to paraphrase an old expression, they already started life on second base, they'll be fine regardless I just wish we didn't live in world that sees which college you attend as some innate measure of your quality as a student or your potential, because they is demonstrably untrue, yet the myth persists