LandM wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:23 pm
MD,
The rich white prep school known as Gilman is Catholic - no? $35,000 a year to go to prep school? It is ok to be a born with a silver spoon? Did daddy buy you your way into Dartmouth? And did JR get into Harvard because of daddy and Grandpa? Might want to look into that mirror big boy.
I was going to bust on you about Pelaton but that was too easy.
DMac if that was your grandkid..........you would be pi$$ed..........I have read enough of your posts to know that a bunch of kids in Dallas would not have grandpa sit idly by.
CU88 - I am a proud Catholic - if you do not like, kiss mine bud. I am who I am and the lady was a disgusting and vile individual. Not only was she ugly varm, she was disgusting.
geez, you think you've done your homework, but wow, so many misses in just one post.
And why are you so hung up on where someone went to school?
No one else claims it means much of anything.
Certainly not in terms of making a sound argument on here.
No, Gilman is not Catholic. Ecumenical. Not sure where you'd have gotten that one.
Nor $35k. BTW, 60% of Gilman kids get some or a lot of scholarship support. But sure, bunch of pretty rich kids too.
Not like the top NE prep schools like Andover and Exeter and Groton, etc, but sure some families with bucks.
Top academic boys school in our region.
I happen to be Episcopalian, but my dad was Catholic, plenty of Catholics in that side of my family tree. Brother-in-law is Catholic, whole lot of Thomases, Josephs, Patricks etc in that family!
Yup, my parents did pay for most of my school; pop was self-made, his mom died when he was young and his dad was a quite bad alcoholic, never more than a few nickels to rub together. Scholarship boy. He made it to UVA on his athleticism, though lucky as all get out that his HS coach moved to UVa the same year and picked him out to come with him, as he wasn't a successful student and hadn't really matured yet. Did so in college, 3X AA, captain, Student Council, etc. Made it in business on sweat and being good with people. But we didn't have serious bucks as I was coming up. Pop was just 24 when I was born and didn't build serious bucks until much later on. Mom didn't bring any money to the table either, scholarship girl, President of her class, captain of two sports, left college to marry my dad, finished later at Hopkins.
No, he certainly didn't 'buy (my) way into Dartmouth'. I was a recruited D1 athlete, multiple offers, chose Dartmouth for academics (certainly not because of lax!). My academic scores may well have gotten me in any way, as my SAT's were 740 and 720 way back before those numbers began to get some inflation. But, yeah, parents paid the bills. But I worked summers and at school, paid for my vehicle, travel, fraternity, etc. Pop made sure I valued hard work and a buck earned through sweat, and I did the same with my son.
Paid 100% for grad school, as did my wife. She didn't take a nickel from her parents (nor did any of her siblings) for their education. She earned academic scholarships and paid the balance out of working constantly. Dartmouth and Harvard Business School. As they say in Boston, "wicked smart"...
I don't know who JR is. Do you mean Jared Kushner? Yes, his dad did reportedly pay very big bucks to get him into Harvard. It happens.
My son was a recruited D1 athlete with very high SATs and grades (better than me, closer to his mother) and took the Harvard offer. Some academic scholarship dollars, but mostly paid by us. He assumes he'll pay for grad school himself, if he chooses that path.
But what does that have to do with anything relevant to our discussions???