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04/22/2021 08:43

Subject: Re:No more safeties since they now focus on yield protection?

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Your kidding right. EVERY university has large groups of that caliber of kid? Really? Your kidding yourself. My kid is in and done at her top choice, and I didn’t post specifically about her. But it IS about high stats focused kids and what they are looking for in a college. I’m sorry your kid ain’t one of them. But a high achieving focused child aiming for HYP [b]ain’t ever gonna find a satisfactory group of peers at Monmouth University.[/b] Your N of a few proves absolutely nothing and your assertion is delusional.[/quote]

Define “satisfactory”. If you mean large in number, you may be right. If you mean intelligent, motivated, capable of high caliber work, then you’re misinformed. They may be harder to find but those kids are absolutely at Monmouth, and many other schools you’d probably consider “inferior” for a “high stats” student. I can also tell you that they know the difference between “your” and “you’re, they proofread their work for errors including autocorrections, and they don’t use “ain’t” when trying to make an effective argument.

- former professor (at Monmouth University, among other places)[/quote]

And yet the argument was effective enough to draw you in to respond. Satisfactory = numerous, several, teeming with options, more than just a few, surrounded by peers of the same drive and caliber. The Data set for Monmouth indicates that only 2percent of the 1200 kids score 700-800 in math and reading portions of sat. So that’s like what 44 kids? Out of 1200??? The majority of the students- over 50 percent, scored between 500-600. That’s a stark difference in student profile dontcha think? So make your point, a HYP child should seriously look at Monmouth. Why? So they can hang out with the same 40 people? And that would be enriching .....why exactly?[/quote]

DP. “Effective?” You are digging yourself in deeper with each response. I was about to respond on the basis that this is a straw man, but you know that. I defer to PP with re: to the students at Monmouth, but you know that there are dozens of schools between Harvard and Monmouth. However, the most idiotic thing is your belief that your child has nothing to learn from people who have lower test scores. I don’t know how your snowflake will cope with the knowledge that there are people who got into her “top tier” college test-optional this year? Maybe they should make those people wear a scarlet “TO” so your kid can avoid talking to them, since they have nothing to offer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Merit_Scholarship_Program

But since you base your definition of who is a “top” student entirely on test scores, perhaps you should note that in 2016-2017, the University of Oklahoma had twice as many National Merit Scholars as Yale. In 2017-2018, half of the top 20 colleges with the most enrolled NMS were state universities, and most of those are schools like Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida, Texas (Dallas! Not Austin), Texas A&M, and Purdue. Many of these colleges offer significant financial incentives for high stats kids to attend. I had a friend whose exceedingly bright kid went to LSU on a full ride — they paid for tuition, room and board, stipend for books, etc. He got into more highly ranked schools, but the deal was too good to turn down. I know this is hard for you to comprehend, but financial considerations are determinative for many students. Even the additional cost of traveling to New England for college is prohibitive. I would suggest that your kid would learn quite a lot from exposure to students who haven’t lived in an UMC bubble their entire lives.
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Do me a favor. And read what I wrote, read my ACTUAL words. What did I Actually say? And then, what have you all interpreted instead? It was never about my kid. But all of you have read into it that way. Fwiw my kid seriously considered GW, substantial scholarship, had the school she wanted, and she knew she would be with driven ambitious kids. Ultimately she chose her other school - why? Bc she is an American kid that has lived in Europe for 5 years and she felt the international community at her chosen school was larger and more cohesive with better integration with the rest of the student body. To the point I made to the PP who said there is ‘NO University ..’ would my kid have found all this at Monmouth? hells no. If any of you had a high achieving high performing kid, you would intellectually accept that no, not every university is a fit for every high stats kid. That is just a fact. But instead you let yourself and your insecurities get triggered. So now your just emotional gnats spewing stuff. Once again PP you’ve made it about my kid. Never was about her. But by doing so, what you’ve done is really made it about yours.