Utterly false. Prove it. This is EXACTLY (child of URM parents who are legacies) the kind of URM kid that stanford wants and accepts. Becuase it checks off at least two boxe: a URM they can report to USNWR and pleasing an alum |
It's not for law school. Go look it up. All they care about is LSAT and GPA. Because those are the figures they report |
Are you this much of a bully in real life? NO, kid wanted it, and got in. End of story. |
Right, but if the numbers are identical, they'll favor a kid who earned the GPA at a more rigorous school. |
Actually Oxford does not. I just asked my DC who is there. It's not happening there no matter what you want to believe in the liberal media. Oxford thinks America has lost its mind.Look it up. The only recent Oxford protest event involved someone trying to cancel nancy pelosi at an oxford union event which was received with great applause. That is all. Sure you can find some stuff happening today at Leeds, but not everywhere in the UK or Europe nor anything like the liberal media wants you to believe. It's just not happening like that over there. |
+1. Send my DS to Oxford to avoid this madness. |
I feel like the Ivy effect is a bit like breastfeeding. People think an Ivy league education/degree will be transformative, then they get out into the workplace and it turns out they are surrounded by people from state schools who paid a fraction of what they did and have the same jobs. Sure, it probably makes some difference, but it's marginal. The same student will likely do fine with any reputable degree, certainly any Top 50 degree. And if you add in the financial aspect they'll do better with less debt weighing them down. |
BUT THAT ISN'T THE CHOICE IN FRONT OF THEM! There are tens of thousands of applications. They aren't looking at JUST TWO. It isn't do we pickthis kid or that kid in isolation! It's "how do we fill this class with the highest GPAs and LSAT scores possible so we can report that to USNWR>". Don't believe me? look at the stats for last year's admission to Harvard law, my alma mater: an impossible 3.9 on a 4.0 top scale for GPA at the 75th percentile and a 176 on the LSAT. Do you realize just how difficult that is? They don't give a fig if you went to podunk U in Alaska. Actually, Podunk U might work because Admissions still likes to brag about geography so Alaska could help. |
I don't disagree. You need top stats from any undergrad to get into a top law school. |
I'd count on a 4.0 and a 175 to get into a top law school. |
Let me guess, you believe in welfare queens too. |
It always favors the kid with "connections", in both law and medical school. To think otherwise is delusional. |
Are you this much of a wimp in real life? There are 3992 schools in the US outside of the Ivy League. You said you didn’t want your kid going to the Ivy League so you presented only Canadian and UK schools as the only other acceptable options. Your English is awful so perhaps it’s your poor communication skills in your post. Nobody says “No Ivy League” and then only implies UToronto, Oxford and Cambridge are acceptable for their kid except someone that wants prestige for less. |
Well, my alma mater, Harvard, tells me every year it now takes a 176 to hit 75th percentile for admissions there. So if unhooked ,you need more than a 175. |
You ARE a bully because the PP didn't say those things and their english is fine. Go somewhere else and complain |