Last week I had dinner with three friends. We all went to the UW. We’ve all had successful careers and long-term marriages. A couple of us have raised a total of six successful children. And yet, we didn’t go to Harvard or aspired to. In fact, we grew up at a time when middle class kids like us didn’t shop around for schools. Nobody went on a tour of campuses. We could afford the UW, so that’s where we went.
My point is that people like Brooks — and I like Brooks’ perspective about 90% of the time — live in a world that is sealed off from the lives lived by 95% of Americans who don’t live or die by their GPA, their SAT scores or the dream of an Ivy League education.
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