But the echo chamber is strong, there are hundreds (thousands?) of wealthy and well-connected teenagers graduating from the Andovers of the world who want to hear from their lauded peers.

As for me, my kids are at our neighborhood public school where my son's best friend has a single parent who drives full-time for Uber and had to borrow running shoes from the coach for cross-country. It's important to pick the life lessons you want your kids to experience before they leave your house, and in my book the "gold star" my son earned by recognizing his friend was hungry and offering to share a Subway footlong with him is worth far more in life than trying to decide which clubs to join at a top 10 university.

The advice in this blog post is specific to college, and the author of this post is in their last year; they certainly have the qualifications to give advice catered to incoming college students.

For what it's worth, I've been out of college for a bit, and I've had very similar sentiments towards college as the author, but they came to me much later than they did for the author.

I might also resonate more with the article because I was one of those people who fell into the trap of following my peers instead of prioritizing what I was actually interested in.

>So young and yet already so full of advice …

Sounds like a Stanford kid.

Well, it is advice for undergraduate students.