one of the biggest cons upper-class Americans ever pulled on the middle class is convincing us that you have to work yourself into mental illness as a child in order to be worthy to attend an elite university. those motherfuckers never did anything of the sort, they got Cs and drank in high school, then they got into Yale because they were legacies, and they got Cs and drank at Yale. you think George W. Bush worked hard? he did not. 

 @dee34601 I worked there for a bit and it was eye-opening to see the number of positions created there to be available for alumni of the right background so they could be a director of something nice sounding.