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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...
Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut
  06/01/15
hm...people who didn't go to prep school in the 1950s? j...
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Talented rigor institution
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no; the guidance counselor would usually steer you to the &q...
green soul-stirring parlour
  06/01/15
What's your source on this?
Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut
  06/01/15
common knowledge
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Razzle-dazzle base old irish cottage
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Wasn't exactly that easy. You should read a book called The...
bespoke odious ratface
  06/01/15
The other thing that struck me about reading the book was th...
bespoke odious ratface
  06/01/15
How were the ivies ranked back then? Was it still HYP?
Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut
  06/01/15
They were still roughly ranked in that order, but admissions...
bespoke odious ratface
  06/01/15
Did gays and libs still go to Brown? Did fratty chads still ...
Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut
  06/01/15
I don't know. Good questions though.
bespoke odious ratface
  06/01/15
gays preferred yale, i think, because it had secret clubs an...
green soul-stirring parlour
  06/01/15
Yes often referred to as "that Yale thing"
Ruby theater
  06/03/15
There was no meaningful silicon valley in the 1950s. They we...
Vivacious Infuriating Station
  06/01/15
I don't know about the use of silicon specifically, but the ...
bespoke odious ratface
  06/01/15
eh...kind of but not really "ranked" in the way we...
galvanic becky public bath
  06/01/15
i think they talk about this in This Side of Paradise, altho...
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lol. supposedly ethnically catholic F. Scott. Fitzgerald was...
galvanic becky public bath
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ljl @ your pensive bit at the end there
ebony sneaky criminal
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180 jab
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Razzle-dazzle base old irish cottage
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he would also get kicked out of cottage when he came back fo...
bat-shit-crazy histrionic elastic band factory reset button
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and yet today his picture hangs in their library where it is...
galvanic becky public bath
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to be fair, cottage doesn't have any of those people
bat-shit-crazy histrionic elastic band factory reset button
  06/03/15
Holy fuck.
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Even at the Andovers and Choates only maybe half went to Ivy...
Trip white step-uncle's house hissy fit
  06/01/15
Different prep schools were feeders for different ivies.
flushed elite lodge boiling water
  06/01/15
And you went where your father went regardless of prestige i...
heady at-the-ready weed whacker giraffe
  06/01/15
We're Vassar men, son.
Appetizing garnet organic girlfriend macaca
  06/01/15
Vasser went coed in '69.
heady at-the-ready weed whacker giraffe
  06/01/15
Lol, did you wander over from TLS?
bespoke odious ratface
  06/01/15
I have been here for a decade plus. :-)
heady at-the-ready weed whacker giraffe
  06/01/15
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Overrated up-to-no-good space french chef
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Makes sense. So all the Rhode Island nobles went to Brown? A...
Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut
  06/02/15
Keep in mind also that the Ivies were historically affiliate...
bespoke odious ratface
  06/02/15
It's sad how all this context and culture has been wiped awa...
flushed elite lodge boiling water
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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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Mind-boggling Amber Volcanic Crater Generalized Bond
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maize trust fund ceo
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How do you know all this?
Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut
  06/03/15
A lot of it comes from reading that book, frankly. Also, I ...
bespoke odious ratface
  06/03/15
I read this in a Saudi's voice
Diverse tripping senate crotch
  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 ...
Mind-boggling Amber Volcanic Crater Generalized Bond
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What's your dad like?
maize trust fund ceo
  06/03/15
Did you get into HUG also?
Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut
  06/03/15
Chicagoans went to northwestern and chicago you dumb shithea...
misanthropic faggot firefighter nowag
  06/02/15
I went to Dartmouth son.
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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:43 PM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut

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

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:44 PM
Author: galvanic becky public bath

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=2...id.#28016840)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:10 PM
Author: Talented rigor institution



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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:45 PM
Author: green soul-stirring parlour

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=2...id.#28016844)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:46 PM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut

What's your source on this?

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:47 PM
Author: charismatic canary new version

common knowledge

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



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:05 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle base old irish cottage



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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:46 PM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

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=2...id.#28016851)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:57 PM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

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=2...id.#28016958)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:48 PM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut

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

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:54 PM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

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=2...id.#28016935)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:57 PM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut

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=2...id.#28016961)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 9:59 PM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

I don't know. Good questions though.

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:12 PM
Author: green soul-stirring parlour

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=2...id.#28017054)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:17 AM
Author: Ruby theater

Yes often referred to as "that Yale thing"

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:50 PM
Author: Vivacious Infuriating Station

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=2...id.#28017354)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:15 PM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

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=2...id.#28017502)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:09 PM
Author: galvanic becky public bath

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=2...id.#28017030)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:09 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy histrionic elastic band factory reset button

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=2...id.#28017039)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:48 PM
Author: galvanic becky public bath

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=2...id.#28017334)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:53 PM
Author: ebony sneaky criminal

ljl @ your pensive bit at the end there

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:02 PM
Author: Swashbuckling theatre dragon

180 jab

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



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:06 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle base old irish cottage



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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:03 PM
Author: Geriatric Opaque Masturbator

180

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:04 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy histrionic elastic band factory reset button

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=2...id.#28017445)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:17 PM
Author: galvanic becky public bath

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=2...id.#28017522)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 1:01 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy histrionic elastic band factory reset button

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

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



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:14 AM
Author: maize trust fund ceo

Holy fuck.

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



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Date: May 31st, 2025 7:06 PM
Author: supple business firm



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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:12 PM
Author: Trip white step-uncle's house hissy fit

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

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:21 PM
Author: flushed elite lodge boiling water

Different prep schools were feeders for different ivies.

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 10:58 PM
Author: heady at-the-ready weed whacker giraffe

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=2...id.#28017413)



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:00 PM
Author: Appetizing garnet organic girlfriend macaca

We're Vassar men, son.

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:14 PM
Author: heady at-the-ready weed whacker giraffe

Vasser went coed in '69.

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:16 PM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

Lol, did you wander over from TLS?

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:17 PM
Author: heady at-the-ready weed whacker giraffe

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

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



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 1:00 AM
Author: Overrated up-to-no-good space french chef



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



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 11:55 AM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut

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=2...id.#28020322)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 11:58 AM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

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=2...id.#28020333)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 11:59 AM
Author: flushed elite lodge boiling water

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=2...id.#28020338)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:02 PM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

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=2...id.#28020367)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:07 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Amber Volcanic Crater Generalized Bond



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



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:15 AM
Author: maize trust fund ceo



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



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:10 AM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut

How do you know all this?

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



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:37 AM
Author: bespoke odious ratface

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=2...id.#28025466)



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Date: May 31st, 2025 10:16 PM
Author: Diverse tripping senate crotch

I read this in a Saudi's voice

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:03 PM
Author: exciting forum place of business

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

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



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Date: June 1st, 2015 11:03 PM
Author: Vivacious Infuriating Station

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=2...id.#28017442)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:07 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle base old irish cottage



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



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:06 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Amber Volcanic Crater Generalized Bond

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=2...id.#28020411)



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:16 AM
Author: maize trust fund ceo

What's your dad like?

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



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:28 AM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut

Did you get into HUG also?

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



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 12:09 PM
Author: misanthropic faggot firefighter nowag

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=2...id.#28020448)



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 2:50 PM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut

I went to Dartmouth son.

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



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Date: June 2nd, 2015 2:50 PM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut



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



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Date: June 3rd, 2015 12:09 AM
Author: Frisky vigorous telephone juggernaut



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



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Date: June 20th, 2015 12:25 PM
Author: aqua athletic conference



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



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Date: May 31st, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: Racy hell

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=2...id.#48977923)