Students Who Got Caught In Ridiculous Lies

[Anonymous]

thx for this - just went back and adjusted to single space on the essay I’m writing for my kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typing (on a typewriter) represents a (many-decades long) regression in the field of setting type. The convention of two spaces emerged because the first typewriters had only monospace fonts (and therefore no variable-width spacing). Once word processing on computers with variable-width fonts (and variable-width spaces) emerged, there was no longer a need for double spaces. In fact, double spaces can interfere with layout algorithms working as designed.

What lawyers do should hardly be a standard. (Same goes for screenplay writers.)

Who cares where it came from. The bottom line is, plenty of us find two spaces after periods easier to read because they create a more distinct break between sentences, making the text sound more "natural" as we read it and easier to understand. That is one reason why it persists in legal writing, and why many of us were taught it long after typewriters became obsolete.

The point is, it is appalling that an AO would assume that an essay with two spaces after periods had undue adult involvement in writing the essay. It is far more likely that an adult proofreader saw it and, coming from a workplace or background where two spaces are normal (or required), advised the kid to do a universal find-and-replace to change one space after periods to two. The AO in the article said they consider a section with two spaces after periods to be "blatantly faked." That is an outrageous assumption.

Concur. And it speaks to the uselessness of the essay for high-stakes admissions, when that’s the only “tell” an AO is using for whether or not a student wrote an essay themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This one is weird. They thought the parents wrote it because of two spaces between sentences. Don’t you have to tap the space bar twice to get a period? Or do younger people manually put the period in?


“I’ve seen is an essay draft where every period in the sentence was followed by two spaces... that's what the older generation (i.e. parents) was taught with typing."

Buzzfeed is just quoting Reddit bullshtters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t that how lawyers type? Two spaces.

People who print in monospace need to use two spaces. That sometimes carries over to their non-monospace writing out of habit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typing (on a typewriter) represents a (many-decades long) regression in the field of setting type. The convention of two spaces emerged because the first typewriters had only monospace fonts (and therefore no variable-width spacing). Once word processing on computers with variable-width fonts (and variable-width spaces) emerged, there was no longer a need for double spaces. In fact, double spaces can interfere with layout algorithms working as designed.

What lawyers do should hardly be a standard. (Same goes for screenplay writers.)

Who cares where it came from. The bottom line is, plenty of us find two spaces after periods easier to read because they create a more distinct break between sentences, making the text sound more "natural" as we read it and easier to understand. That is one reason why it persists in legal writing, and why many of us were taught it long after typewriters became obsolete.

The point is, it is appalling that an AO would assume that an essay with two spaces after periods had undue adult involvement in writing the essay. It is far more likely that an adult proofreader saw it and, coming from a workplace or background where two spaces are normal (or required), advised the kid to do a universal find-and-replace to change one space after periods to two. The AO in the article said they consider a section with two spaces after periods to be "blatantly faked." That is an outrageous assumption.

FWIW, it wasn’t an AO but a consultant working with the student, and the consultant noticed after comparing the student’s authentic work.

“Having seen previous examples of the student's actual writing to compare with, it was pretty obvious that the parent had more than a heavy hand in that draft. ”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t that how lawyers type? Two spaces.

Yes, it is, speaking from experience

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mother taught at one of the count's rich schools. One of the last things she did before retiring is curse out a parent that tried to bribe her.

Why not negotiate as high of a price as possible and then continue on acting as if you never got offered a bribe?

[Anonymous]

I am an older millennial lawyer and we all use one space now - even in law school (2007 grad) we were instructed to use one space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting article from AOs. Probably half of the lies are from DCUMers. 🙂

Your favorite?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferadams2/college-admissions-officers-are-sharing-the-worst-example

#10 is a doozy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t that how lawyers type? Two spaces.

Yes, it is, speaking from experience

I require two spaces of my associates because it is the civilized way to write. Now get off my damn yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an older millennial lawyer and we all use one space now - even in law school (2007 grad) we were instructed to use one space.

+1. It's definitely an orange flag for a 17 year old that would strongly suggest someone 50+ had their hands on the essay. No one younger, even in their 40s, would do the double space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an older millennial lawyer and we all use one space now - even in law school (2007 grad) we were instructed to use one space.

I'm a Gen X partner (law school class of 2001) and we most assuredly do not all use 1 space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These lies are really stupid.

I think the biggest lie is schools inflate GPA, telling colleges that they are straight A students. It has been going on for several years now.

Schools lie a ton! I really wish Ivy+ schools would blacklist them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typing (on a typewriter) represents a (many-decades long) regression in the field of setting type. The convention of two spaces emerged because the first typewriters had only monospace fonts (and therefore no variable-width spacing). Once word processing on computers with variable-width fonts (and variable-width spaces) emerged, there was no longer a need for double spaces. In fact, double spaces can interfere with layout algorithms working as designed.

What lawyers do should hardly be a standard. (Same goes for screenplay writers.)

Who cares where it came from. The bottom line is, plenty of us find two spaces after periods easier to read because they create a more distinct break between sentences, making the text sound more "natural" as we read it and easier to understand. That is one reason why it persists in legal writing, and why many of us were taught it long after typewriters became obsolete.

The point is, it is appalling that an AO would assume that an essay with two spaces after periods had undue adult involvement in writing the essay. It is far more likely that an adult proofreader saw it and, coming from a workplace or background where two spaces are normal (or required), advised the kid to do a universal find-and-replace to change one space after periods to two. The AO in the article said they consider a section with two spaces after periods to be "blatantly faked." That is an outrageous assumption.

Or that an adult typed the kid's essay into the form, but didn't write a word of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These admissions officers clearly all have god complexes. Glad they make so little money. Hope Trump sends them to jail.

Trump loves them fool

In what world did Don Jrget into college on his own or Eric ?

These are trumps buds