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So if you went to prep school in the 1950s you could go to any ivy

Who the fuck went to schools like Northwestern and universit...
Transparent Slippery Azn
  06/01/15
hm...people who didn't go to prep school in the 1950s? j...
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no; the guidance counselor would usually steer you to the &q...
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What's your source on this?
Transparent Slippery Azn
  06/01/15
common knowledge
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beta shrine
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Wasn't exactly that easy. You should read a book called The...
big-titted alpha
  06/01/15
The other thing that struck me about reading the book was th...
big-titted alpha
  06/01/15
How were the ivies ranked back then? Was it still HYP?
Transparent Slippery Azn
  06/01/15
They were still roughly ranked in that order, but admissions...
big-titted alpha
  06/01/15
Did gays and libs still go to Brown? Did fratty chads still ...
Transparent Slippery Azn
  06/01/15
I don't know. Good questions though.
big-titted alpha
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gays preferred yale, i think, because it had secret clubs an...
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Yes often referred to as "that Yale thing"
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There was no meaningful silicon valley in the 1950s. They we...
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I don't know about the use of silicon specifically, but the ...
big-titted alpha
  06/01/15
eh...kind of but not really "ranked" in the way we...
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i think they talk about this in This Side of Paradise, altho...
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lol. supposedly ethnically catholic F. Scott. Fitzgerald was...
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ljl @ your pensive bit at the end there
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he would also get kicked out of cottage when he came back fo...
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and yet today his picture hangs in their library where it is...
cobalt stead
  06/01/15
to be fair, cottage doesn't have any of those people
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Holy fuck.
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Even at the Andovers and Choates only maybe half went to Ivy...
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  06/01/15
Different prep schools were feeders for different ivies.
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And you went where your father went regardless of prestige i...
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  06/01/15
We're Vassar men, son.
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Vasser went coed in '69.
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Lol, did you wander over from TLS?
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I have been here for a decade plus. :-)
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Makes sense. So all the Rhode Island nobles went to Brown? A...
Transparent Slippery Azn
  06/02/15
Keep in mind also that the Ivies were historically affiliate...
big-titted alpha
  06/02/15
It's sad how all this context and culture has been wiped awa...
tripping field
  06/02/15
Believe it or not, I know a couple of New England WASP's who...
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  06/02/15
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Submissive Reading Party
  06/02/15
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Rusted idea he suggested boistinker
  06/03/15
How do you know all this?
Transparent Slippery Azn
  06/03/15
A lot of it comes from reading that book, frankly. Also, I ...
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  06/03/15
I read this in a Saudi's voice
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  05/31/25
Pretty much. And prole catholic schools fed students into pr...
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ITT: many turds and azns reminiscencing about schools for pr...
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my dad went to phillips exeter in the 60s. Said that almost ...
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  06/02/15
What's your dad like?
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  06/03/15
Did you get into HUG also?
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  06/03/15
Chicagoans went to northwestern and chicago you dumb shithea...
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  06/02/15
I went to Dartmouth son.
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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:43 PM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn

Who the fuck went to schools like Northwestern and university of Chicago then?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016835)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:44 PM
Author: cobalt stead

hm...people who didn't go to prep school in the 1950s?

just a guess.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016840)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:10 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone curious ticket booth dog poop



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017475)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:45 PM
Author: Avocado learning disabled marketing idea casino

no; the guidance counselor would usually steer you to the "right" school, which was often an ivy, but not always.

family connections mattered, alumni connections mattered. but if you were just too dumb, they'd often find ways to push you away from the better schools in order to protect their own reputations with the university adcoms.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016844)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:46 PM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn

What's your source on this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016857)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:47 PM
Author: Wonderful cyan lettuce

common knowledge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016873)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:05 PM
Author: beta shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020397)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:46 PM
Author: big-titted alpha

Wasn't exactly that easy. You should read a book called The Chosen. It is an excellent examination of admissions over the years at HYP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016851)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:57 PM
Author: big-titted alpha

The other thing that struck me about reading the book was that the Ivies still had that inclination toward social engineering, but rather than focusing on enrolling minorities, those energies were focused on enrolling deserving whites from modest backgrounds across the heartland (non-Jewish whites of course). The economist James Tobin is listed as one example of the white Protestant masses who was lifted up by Yale, given a nearly free education, and turned into a great scholar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016958)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:48 PM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn

How were the ivies ranked back then? Was it still HYP?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016882)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:54 PM
Author: big-titted alpha

They were still roughly ranked in that order, but admissions were obviously much less of the circus that they are now. I suspect one of the main reasons was that there just wasn't as much to gain by going to HYP in the 50's. We had a much, much more middle class economy back then. Wall Street had been knocked on its ass in the Depression and never fully recovered. Silicon Valley existed, but there were no start-up IPO's and VC was in its infancy. There was much less of a lottery to win, and blue collar people often did as well economically as guys working in respectable office jobs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016935)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:57 PM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn

Did gays and libs still go to Brown? Did fratty chads still go to Dartmouth? Did the unexceptional still go to Penn?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016961)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:59 PM
Author: big-titted alpha

I don't know. Good questions though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28016968)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:12 PM
Author: Avocado learning disabled marketing idea casino

gays preferred yale, i think, because it had secret clubs and institutions for them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017054)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:17 AM
Author: Zombie-like appetizing sanctuary

Yes often referred to as "that Yale thing"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025311)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:50 PM
Author: splenetic indian lodge sneaky criminal

There was no meaningful silicon valley in the 1950s. They weren't even using silicom in the vacuum tubes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017354)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:15 PM
Author: big-titted alpha

I don't know about the use of silicon specifically, but the SF area has been a center of innovation since the Navy started developing radio technology there in the early 1900's.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017502)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:09 PM
Author: cobalt stead

eh...kind of but not really "ranked" in the way we think of today. an Andover Man was matriculating to Yale like his father and grandfather before him. the idea of picking Harvard because wall street brokerages might go deeper into the class there or MIT because of its superior STEM credentials would never enter his mind. maayyyyyybe he'd consider breaking rank for Princeton since they had a lot fewer jews and catholics at the time.

also iirc Columbia had the largest endowment of any school in the world up until the late 60s or early 70s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017030)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:09 PM
Author: geriatric alcoholic legal warrant brunch

i think they talk about this in This Side of Paradise, although that was about an earlier time period (WWI).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017039)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:48 PM
Author: cobalt stead

lol. supposedly ethnically catholic F. Scott. Fitzgerald was once humiliated at Princeton when during an eating club event a senior Chad-ish member from PE overheard him trying to pass off his secondary school, St. Paul ACADEMY in St. Paul Minnesota, as THE St. Paul's SCHOOL to some girl from Barnard or Brearley, or whatever and Exonian Chad drunkenly called him out in front of the entire Cottage Club.

this, along with being cut after one day of tryouts with the football team is said to have contributed to his becoming a weird introverted loner who just sat around writing little stories and failing out of school by the time he shipped off to WWI. the cross-generational similarities between him and pensive are actually quite striking, apart from the fact that he fought in a war, had some talent, experienced moments of success and recognition during his lifetime, and got into Princeton.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017334)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:53 PM
Author: Titillating domesticated black woman

ljl @ your pensive bit at the end there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017387)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:02 PM
Author: rambunctious odious trailer park goal in life

180 jab

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017432)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:06 PM
Author: beta shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020418)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:03 PM
Author: At-the-ready New Version Potus

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017443)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:04 PM
Author: geriatric alcoholic legal warrant brunch

he would also get kicked out of cottage when he came back for reunions and everyone thought he was weird.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017445)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:17 PM
Author: cobalt stead

and yet today his picture hangs in their library where it is admired by numerous chinamen, turdjew hybrids, and sex positive transcurious panqueer preop ladyboys as a constant reminder that, without vigilance, we are always but one generation from white privileged cisbiggots taking away our non-gendered safespace bathrooms.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017522)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 1:01 AM
Author: geriatric alcoholic legal warrant brunch

to be fair, cottage doesn't have any of those people

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025653)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:14 AM
Author: Rusted idea he suggested boistinker

Holy fuck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025287)



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Date: May 31st, 2025 7:06 PM
Author: Arousing judgmental temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#48977583)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:12 PM
Author: red resort organic girlfriend

Even at the Andovers and Choates only maybe half went to Ivys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017050)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:21 PM
Author: tripping field

Different prep schools were feeders for different ivies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017124)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:58 PM
Author: pungent harsh pisswyrm

And you went where your father went regardless of prestige in a lot of cases.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017413)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:00 PM
Author: nubile gay wizard church building

We're Vassar men, son.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017422)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:14 PM
Author: pungent harsh pisswyrm

Vasser went coed in '69.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017496)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:16 PM
Author: big-titted alpha

Lol, did you wander over from TLS?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017509)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:17 PM
Author: pungent harsh pisswyrm

I have been here for a decade plus. :-)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017520)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 1:00 AM
Author: Sable razzmatazz circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025645)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 11:55 AM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn

Makes sense. So all the Rhode Island nobles went to Brown? And Ithaca upper class chose Cornell.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020322)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 11:58 AM
Author: big-titted alpha

Keep in mind also that the Ivies were historically affiliated with certain religious denominations. Princeton was Presbyterian, Penn was Quaker, Harvard and Yale were Congregational/Unitarian, etc. Brown was the Baptist-affiliated Ivy. So, for example, John D. Rockefeller's son went to Brown because the family was Baptist (admittedly this was before the 1950's).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020333)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 11:59 AM
Author: tripping field

It's sad how all this context and culture has been wiped away, now it's just superstudy faggots clicking a checkbox to apply to one more college.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020338)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:02 PM
Author: big-titted alpha

Believe it or not, I know a couple of New England WASP's who went to H/Y and have become Congregational ministers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020367)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:07 PM
Author: Submissive Reading Party



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020422)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:15 AM
Author: Rusted idea he suggested boistinker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025292)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:10 AM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn

How do you know all this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025255)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:37 AM
Author: big-titted alpha

A lot of it comes from reading that book, frankly. Also, I have just accumulated a lot of general knowledge about history and culture over the years. I love reading Wikipedia. I can sit there clicking through page after page for hours on end. Cool, huh?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025466)



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Date: May 31st, 2025 10:16 PM
Author: big chad university

I read this in a Saudi's voice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#48977927)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:03 PM
Author: Glassy Cuck

Pretty much. And prole catholic schools fed students into prole Jesuit universities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017440)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:03 PM
Author: splenetic indian lodge sneaky criminal

ITT: many turds and azns reminiscencing about schools for proud white men at a time when their forebears were throwing poop at each other in mud huts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28017442)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:07 PM
Author: beta shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020423)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:06 PM
Author: Submissive Reading Party

my dad went to phillips exeter in the 60s. Said that almost half his class got into HUG back then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020411)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:16 AM
Author: Rusted idea he suggested boistinker

What's your dad like?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025297)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:28 AM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn

Did you get into HUG also?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025407)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:09 PM
Author: Hairraiser heaven

Chicagoans went to northwestern and chicago you dumb shithead. They're same as southerners went to vandy and emory and Californians went to USC. They've been reduced to perception as marginally prestigious schools for Jews/azns by super study's such as yourself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28020448)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 2:50 PM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn

I went to Dartmouth son.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28021751)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 2:50 PM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28021746)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:09 AM
Author: Transparent Slippery Azn



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28025238)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 12:25 PM
Author: Chocolate keepsake machete



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#28164521)



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Date: May 31st, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: talented bat shit crazy hall friendly grandma

Thread reminds me of “So Much Unfairness of Things” which my public school language arts teacher assigned as homework one night in 7th grade. We had to read the story and the next day there was a pop quiz.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2895839&forum_id=2Elisa#48977923)