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Are you as Prestigious as My Family and I?
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 6:46 PM Author: impressive silver famous landscape painting Dad went to Yale Ugrad, Emory Med School and is a doctor and now owns his own business
Mom owns a restaurant in D.C. She was top 1% of her class back in school.
We just bought a 3.5 million dollar mansion on River Road, Maryland, an upgrade from our old 1.2 million house in Fairfax County, VA.
I am attending UChicago and my older brother went to Carnegie Mellon's Bschool and is now on Wall Street. He used his money and pooled with my dad to buy me a BMW on my birthday. He also applied and was accepted to Upenn Wharton's MBA program. My younger sister is attending Columbia next year and is studying pre-med.
PS: My uncle went to Harvard and Oxford for PHD. We don't see him much but he is also prestigious.
If you are as prestigious as me, post your stats and we may be friends. No inferiors please. |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:09 PM Author: razzmatazz church building You mean - my family and me? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913230) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 8:07 PM Author: Zippy pervert property No, s/he means "my family and I." A form of the verb "to be" is understood to follow the "I." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913403) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 10:52 AM Author: Abnormal Keepsake Machete Temple "...as my family and I (are)" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9914627) |
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Date: July 1st, 2008 2:26 AM Author: Greedy fishy circlehead brunch That's very TTT.
Correct: "my family and me." |
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Date: July 14th, 2008 7:41 PM Author: Abnormal Keepsake Machete Temple It's not "Are you as prestigious as me?", you inbred cretin. Go back to Kentucky. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9973060) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 10:54 AM Author: supple generalized bond No. . . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9914629) |
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Date: July 1st, 2008 2:27 AM Author: Greedy fishy circlehead brunch NYCFan is right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9934309) |
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Date: June 24th, 2008 3:01 AM Author: provocative meetinghouse LOL, the old man doesn't know grammar, despite having been around on earth long enough to certainly get the basics of it! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9916509) |
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Date: June 24th, 2008 10:29 PM Author: razzmatazz church building http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/myself.html (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9918387) |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 1:01 AM Author: azure address you still don't get it do you? "as my family and I" is a clause which assumes "are" is the verb, so you use I. it's a good thing you grew up in the era when you didn't have to be a great student to get into harvard, just go to the right school and be rich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9918761) |
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Date: June 29th, 2008 7:06 PM Author: Sepia Adventurous Codepig Trump Supporter As big a faggot as oldmanfan is, that was a better era. The ivys should be for the children of the rich, not ugly gunners like you losers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9930175) |
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Date: June 29th, 2008 7:59 PM Author: Abnormal Keepsake Machete Temple TITCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9930287) |
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Date: July 1st, 2008 2:29 AM Author: Greedy fishy circlehead brunch Why should we assume the existence of a superfluous and wholly unnecessary verb?
Would you otherwise be mislead by the thought that the speaker was referring to entities the speaker believed to not exist?
Give me a fucking break, retard. |
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Date: July 1st, 2008 2:42 AM Author: azure address you assume it because that's just how the clause is setup, genius. you need a subject and a verb for an adverbial clause (which this is). even if you were dumb and wrote "me" instead of "I", the verb would still be assumed (as my family and me *are*). I don't know what your first language is but in English we don't have to say every word explicitly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9934322) |
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Date: July 1st, 2008 5:26 PM Author: dashing amethyst sandwich You are correct. This is combination of two sentences. "My family and I are prestigious. Are you as prestigious (as we are)?" Using a comparative abverbial clause, these two sentences become "Are you as prestigious as my family and I?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9935895) |
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Date: July 1st, 2008 9:46 PM Author: Greedy fishy circlehead brunch You're right.
This is no fun. |
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Date: July 15th, 2008 7:10 PM Author: maize sweet tailpipe You don't have to know this to get into Harvard today, either. There's a reason the language changes and simplifies. Eventually this specific distinction will completely disappear and grammar Nazis will have to cling to something else. (Thank God.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9976338) |
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Date: July 1st, 2008 5:23 PM Author: dashing amethyst sandwich The object in this sentence is "you" not "me" Reverse the sentence. "My family and I are prestigious. Are you?" |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:23 PM Author: exhilarant spot move to kalorama, then we'll talk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913265) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:40 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy range HStudent, you are worthless. I would never defend such unwarranted snobbery as displayed by the OP but I just want to remind you that you should be more concerned about your own pathetic existence than critiquing those of others. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913318) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:43 PM Author: exhilarant spot haha relax, its called sarcasm
just dropping a local reference. im proudly from the stix. |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:47 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy range You'll fit right in with the Princeton Sociology department.
An elitist who ostensibly fights for the common man. You'll be the golden boy for whatever that's worth. |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:50 PM Author: exhilarant spot ah im an elitest now?
cool. |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:52 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy range The worst variety, a faux elitist (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913365) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:54 PM Author: exhilarant spot interesting
i had no idea so much could be gleaned from random postings on a message board
dont worry about these things so much |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 7:58 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy range It's pure comedy. You think you are somehow established after working at a thinktank and graduating from a college.
The worst is your own duplicity when it comes to presitge. |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 8:01 PM Author: exhilarant spot i think im established?
in any event i am sorry (not sarcastic) if my postings on this board has lead you to believe im an arrogant prick (or whatever it is you believe). just remember that xoxo/= real life |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 7:12 AM Author: razzmatazz church building That's why you tell people you went to college "near Boston." Helps avoid barbs from people projecting their resentments. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9919049) |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 11:02 AM Author: exhilarant spot no people who say that are the douchiest by far. just say it and be done. dont give people the run around, "where in boston? which school in Cambridge"...thats obnoxious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9919376) |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 12:23 PM Author: razzmatazz church building Subject: The age-old conundrum You get whacked either way (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9919544) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 8:13 PM Author: Slate stead LOL at prestige consumerist (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913408) |
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Date: July 13th, 2008 12:11 PM Author: flickering glittery stage something wrong with your penis, dood? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9969649) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 8:34 PM Author: Angry cracking yarmulke lol no one drives a beamer in hyde park. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913459) |
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Date: June 30th, 2008 10:24 PM Author: primrose hairless karate yeah your bmw is definitely going to get stolen by some south side chicago crackhead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9933682) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 10:38 AM Author: vermilion mood people who are hurt Subject: Resaons you & your family aren't very prestigious Dad: From Yale to Emory; that's quite a drop there. What about Harvard & JHU med? If he wanted to stick to the South, there is always Doook.
Mom: Where was she in the top 1%? High school or college? Also, what kind of restuarant?
You: Why U of C and no Ivy, much less HYP? You didn't even get into Yale, where you had the legacy thing going for you.
Bro: CMU Bschool is nothing special, there are about 15 bschools, 30 law schools, and 100 medical schools most people would consider more prestigous. The fact that he was accepted to Wharton doesn't mean anything, he doesn't have a degree from there. Exactly what does he do on Wall St? He can't be that much of a baller if he needed to pool money with your dad to buy you a BMW.
Sis: Being a Columbia frosh means nothing. Like you, she couldn't get into Yale, despite being a legacy.
Uncle: Seems to be the most prestigious one in your family.
All in all, your fam is clearly accomplished, but not uber-prestigious by any means. HTH. |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 9:57 PM Author: sexy motley half-breed CMU doesn't have a law school nor a medical school. I rather like its Tepper school, I think it is top tier after Wharton. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9915807) |
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Date: June 24th, 2008 10:47 AM Author: vermilion mood people who are hurt Subject: I never stated CMU had a law or med school. I was only listing grad schools that can be considered more prestigious than TTTepper. While respectable, CMU's bschool certainly doesn't have the prestige factor of Wharton. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9916756) |
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Date: June 24th, 2008 10:08 PM Author: sexy motley half-breed Never said it did. I said AFTER Wharton. Also, Tepper MBA is shit compared to Tepper Ugrad.
For Ugrad the Tier goes: 1. Wharton
2.3.4.5.6. Sloan/Haas/Tepper/Ross/Stern
However, the brother probably attended Tepper before its rise, thus making him less prestigious (just like attending Harvard during NYCFan's time makes him less prestigious). |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 12:23 PM Author: vermilion mood people who are hurt Subject: The issue was MBA not undergrad. For the MBA there are a good 10-15 bschools that are clearly better than CMU. For undergrad, I'd say Sloan, Stern and Ross are better as well, esp for finance related things on the East Coast.
Regarding NYCfan and Harvard, in the days he attended, the gap between HYP and the rest of the say 50 schools was much much greater than it is today (they were kind of like Oxbridge in the UK). |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 2:13 PM Author: sexy motley half-breed Sloan perhaps.
Ross is part of Umich which is a festering piece of shit. Stern is currently overrated.
MBA part I agree with, but the Op said his bro is going to Wharton for MBA so perhaps you misread.
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Date: June 25th, 2008 2:30 PM Author: vermilion mood people who are hurt Subject: The OP said: That is bro went to CMU, but was accepted to Wharton. This to me implied the bro had the option to go to Wharton, but didn't.
I don't think the bro is going to attend Wharton in the future. The OP also made it sound like his bro was a total baller on Wall St. There is no way somebody of this sort is applying to bschool, much less going.
Anyhow, enough pondering on this clown. |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 3:16 PM Author: sexy motley half-breed Ah okay, interesting take on it. From what I gathered it seems like the bro went to Tepper Ugrad and now is a "baller on Wall St" as you say, and was accepted to Wharton recently but for Grad. Either way, the most unprestigious part is Uchicago and Emory IMO. Unless he meant Tepper for Grad (MBA), then that would be the most unprestigious part. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9919907) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 7:04 PM Author: spruce awkward ticket booth those are some of my favorite schools besides emory. your family will never come up in the world (no senate for another 300 years) until you get a 3 generation legacy at one college though.. gotta start again I guess. Shoulda got into Yale... your a real let down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9915459) |
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Date: July 8th, 2008 10:15 AM Author: federal swollen juggernaut my cousin went to HUG and YLS. so basically he could take a shit and it's be more prestigious than your whole family (save your uncle... that would be kinda a draw) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9954014) |
Date: June 22nd, 2008 8:48 PM Author: pungent nofapping station ladyboy you are relying on halo prestige. sorry. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913490) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 9:14 PM Author: gaped razzle stag film Subject: There are no $3.5 mil mansions on River Road Besides the real money is in Virginia and DC - The hired help lives along RR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913586) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2008 10:43 PM Author: impressive silver famous landscape painting ^ Quite untrue. Family has lived in Fairfax all their lives. Everyone knows Fairfax is only home to the single digit million homes as there are too many people and many of these millionaire homes don't even have yards! The most exclusive spots are the spaces in Langley/Mclean/Maryland (RR) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9913850) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 9:45 AM Author: gaped razzle stag film Subject: Wrong Middelburg is where the money is. There are a couple of exceptions along the GW Parkway and Great Falls. BTW, there are not many yards in the Upper East side either; yards are hardly a reflection of real estate value; but a good indicator of striver poseurs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9914538) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 10:18 AM Author: exhilarant spot middleburg as in loudon county?
almost the definition of UNprestigous |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 10:26 AM Author: wonderful public bath You have no clue what you're talking about, do you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9914589) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 10:48 AM Author: exhilarant spot horse farms (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9914622) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 11:10 AM Author: gaped razzle stag film Subject: A few - (good thing to have in *hunt country*) Cattle as well, Mars has over $20,000,000 in Bulls in his *yard* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9914639) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 5:33 PM Author: Copper mental disorder space loudon county has fun driving roads (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9915249) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 6:06 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy range HStudent, being fat is also not prestigious. You couldn't last a minute outside of a liberal haven, also not very prestigious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9915319) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 7:02 PM Author: exhilarant spot whoa buddy relax. im not prestigious. we get it. i never said i was. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9915456) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 10:56 AM Author: Abnormal Keepsake Machete Temple U r a fat and a poor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9914630) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 7:09 PM Author: dashing amethyst sandwich fortunately, no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9915472) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 7:09 PM Author: exhilarant spot hi mama! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9915474) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 7:14 PM Author: spruce awkward ticket booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9915484) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2008 10:04 PM Author: impressive silver famous landscape painting I didn't apply to Yale. I did EA to Uchicago for econ, which I believe was the right choice.
Did I not mention my Dad received a scholarship for Emory? At the time, we weren't as rich as we were then so my dad chose Emory instead for the scholarship and easier financing.
My sister did not apply there either as she had many friends going to Barnard and decided to app to Columbia. She is the type to care more about friends and such than being a prestige whore.
Finally, by pooled I meant as in they split the cost. It does not mean they can't afford a car on their own as they both have multiple luxury vehicles at their disposal. My brother does not tell me how much he makes but it is more than enough to pay for even his S550 which he got last month.
PS: You're*
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Date: June 24th, 2008 8:56 AM Author: gaped razzle stag film Subject: Prestige is not defined by what one has and especially not by what others have, but by what one is, i.e. what one does for others. Neither money nor education is the measure of individual worht or *prestige* One that is caught up in the Jones race is just another rat running around circles in a cage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9916651) |
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Date: June 24th, 2008 10:18 AM Author: exhilarant spot that is very nice RWC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9916701) |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 12:27 PM Author: vermilion mood people who are hurt Subject: Interesting thing about your sister. You claim she isn't a prestige whore (hence Columbia instead of Yale) and wanted to be with her friends, yet she applied to Columbia instead of Barnard where her friends were, presumably for the prestige, since the education for the most part would be the same. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9919552) |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 2:21 PM Author: impressive silver famous landscape painting She's not a prestige "whore" but she's also not an idiot. Why would she go to Barnard when she can go to Columbia and hang out with her friends? Basically having her cake and eating it too. Not to mention my parents would probably not allow her to choose Barnard as it doesn't make much sense since she can see her friends just as well from Columbia as its across the street.
Finally, she also has guy friends going to Columbia so its not like she knows no one at the main school. |
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Date: June 25th, 2008 2:40 PM Author: spruce awkward ticket booth Uhh, Barnard women get the same degree as Columbia students. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9919804) |
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Date: June 29th, 2008 7:29 PM Author: Hairraiser Grizzly Feces Base Ahh, so what you meant to say is your family has new money, i.e. first generation money. And not even a lot of new money, just more than some poor chap working in a factory. Now, if your family had old money, your dad wouldn't have needed the charity handout scholarship to attend med school.
Okay, so members of your family attended some good schools here and there, just upgraded to a McMansion and can afford a luxury car or two, (well three if everyone chips in and buys it). I'm sorry but you and your family are not prestigious. You are, however, nouveau riche. While this may give you some bragging rights over the working class poor, you are not now, nor ever will be prestigious. You're money is too new. And now matter how hard you try, your money will never be old. You and your family still have to work for a living and have not amassed enough real weath to quit your jobs and live off the interest.
Now, if you really were prestigious, you would have told us where your family summers, where your winter home is located and what clubs to which your old man belongs.
Also, not to burst your prestige bubble but having a daddy who is in professional services and a mama who slings hash all day will never cut it with the upper crust. Tell your story to the folks on the Vineyard or Sag Harbor and you'll be laughed right off the island. |
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Date: July 1st, 2008 5:44 PM Author: turquoise ratface dog poop Subject: Actually For summering, most of the old money has been priced out of places like Sag Harbor (less so in the Vineyard). These places are filled with Manhattan bankers, lawyers, and hedge fund managers....not guys with III and IV in their names, though of course, the 2 groups are not mutually exclusive. Look no further than Greenwich, CT to see old money doesn't hold much sway anymore.
Some of NY's private clubs, best co-ops, and boards of places like the MET remain more old school knickerbocker, but even still, much less so than before.
I agree with the rest of your analysis on [un]"eliteguy". |
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Date: July 14th, 2008 11:23 AM Author: marvelous corner crotch Subject: another declining family restaurant ?
BMW's ?
downhill slide in schools from one generation to the next ?
poor people - perhaps welfare will be generous for the 3rd generation
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Date: June 24th, 2008 2:29 AM Author: learning disabled coral crackhouse No. More so. But I choose not to trumpet this fact on a message board... except when I'm hammered and some flamer strikes me as a one-dimensional douchebag. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9916478) |
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Date: June 27th, 2008 9:48 AM Author: canary useless brakes Don't you mean, "my family and me"??
Based on your lack of proper grammar, I answer yes to your question. |
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Date: June 29th, 2008 7:11 PM Author: Sepia Adventurous Codepig Trump Supporter lol at you stupid faggots for responding to this poor flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9930185) |
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Date: June 29th, 2008 8:15 PM Author: canary useless brakes ...good point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9930343) |
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Date: June 29th, 2008 8:30 PM Author: pungent nofapping station ladyboy like you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9930394) |
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Date: July 15th, 2008 5:55 PM Author: contagious lay Subject: Only about 100x MORE prestigious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9976002) |
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Date: July 15th, 2008 6:01 PM Author: contagious lay Subject: Only about 100x MORE prestigious Father: BA @ UCLA, JD @ University of San Francisco Mother: BA @ Mills College in Oakland, MBA @ UCLA Brother: BA @ UCSD, MBA @ UCR, PhD @ Claremont Graduate University 2nd Brother: Dropped out of UC Irvine, studying architecture at night classes and pursuing West LA Community College.
Another point of prestige: financial success and self-fulfillment, no PRETENTION, secure and loving family. |
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Date: July 15th, 2008 9:21 PM Author: spruce awkward ticket booth Do Uou Cee?!? Someone needs to go to Stanford.. thats all I'm saying |
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Date: July 15th, 2008 9:39 PM Author: contagious lay Mom got into Stanford as a transfer. She stayed in Oakland and is perfectly content with that decision years later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9976872) |
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Date: July 15th, 2008 9:58 PM Author: spruce awkward ticket booth Ok.. so where id you go? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9976921) |
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Date: July 15th, 2008 10:21 PM Author: contagious lay I'm a senior in HS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=828027&forum_id=1#9977014) |