Girl accepted by 39 schools and counting

[Anonymous]

Geez my DD got over $1M in scholarships. Too bad she can only use one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's obnoxious. Thousands of kids could do this every year but they don't because they aren't jerks. She forced admissions offices of at least 45 schools to waste their time on her when she had no intention of attending their schools.

+100

[Anonymous]

I'm no longer impressed by stories like this.

[Anonymous]

"The crazy thing is, I'm still waiting on decision letters, but I was not expecting that at all," 17-year-old Nixon told CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL.

You're an African American female, and you weren't expecting this?

Sounds pretty naive to me.

[Anonymous]

Last year my granddaughter applied to a dozen schools when she was seriously considering less than half of them. I asked her why she applied to colleges that she was not interested in and she said the school counselor urged her to do it to run up the scholarship offers. It's a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son found 7 schools of interest. Perhaps 50 suggests she has a problem making decisions?

And a lack of focus.

[Anonymous]

This is ridiculous. I don't understand kids that apply to more than 15 schools. We're "only" paying for 10 apps for our kids. I really hope that when these stories come out, schools blackball students from these schools. What kind of counselor says that applying to 50 schools is a good use of time or resources?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year my granddaughter applied to a dozen schools when she was seriously considering less than half of them. I asked her why she applied to colleges that she was not interested in and she said the school counselor urged her to do it to run up the scholarship offers. It's a thing.

I was thinking the same thing but apparently this is a public school so I wouldn’t expect bragging like this from a public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I don't understand kids that apply to more than 15 schools. We're "only" paying for 10 apps for our kids. I really hope that when these stories come out, schools blackball students from these schools. What kind of counselor says that applying to 50 schools is a good use of time or resources?

colleges waive the fee for low income applicants

[Anonymous]

The article doesn't say what colleges accepted her. It doesn't mention her grades or SAT?ACT score either. No way to tell if the schools she got into are highly selective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I don't understand kids that apply to more than 15 schools. We're "only" paying for 10 apps for our kids. I really hope that when these stories come out, schools blackball students from these schools. What kind of counselor says that applying to 50 schools is a good use of time or resources?

God can you people read the thread?

https://commonblackcollegeapp.com/

If it was a problem, they'd put a limit on it like the standard common app has. They want this volume of applications. The common black app home page itself touts a girl who got 22 acceptances.

Commenting before you know is simple ignorance. Distasteful, but understandable. But to post stuff as you guys have right in the face of the explanation... wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's obnoxious. Thousands of kids could do this every year but they don't because they aren't jerks. She forced admissions offices of at least 45 schools to waste their time on her when she had no intention of attending their schools.

+100

And that's 45 kids who were rejected for every acceptance she got, and no one will fill those slots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's obnoxious. Thousands of kids could do this every year but they don't because they aren't jerks. She forced admissions offices of at least 45 schools to waste their time on her when she had no intention of attending their schools.

+100

And that's 45 kids who were rejected for every acceptance she got, and no one will fill those slots.

Where do you get that? The schools know that not everyone they accept will accept them, that is why there is such a thing as a “yield”. I had not heard of the common black app but it sounds like high numbers of acceptances is a known thing. She is clearly a hard working young woman, why do you have to put her down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's obnoxious. Thousands of kids could do this every year but they don't because they aren't jerks. She forced admissions offices of at least 45 schools to waste their time on her when she had no intention of attending their schools.

+100

And that's 45 kids who were rejected for every acceptance she got, and no one will fill those slots.

Where do you get that? The schools know that not everyone they accept will accept them, that is why there is such a thing as a “yield”. I had not heard of the common black app but it sounds like high numbers of acceptances is a known thing. She is clearly a hard working young woman, why do you have to put her down.

We don't know the schools she applied to. Maybe they're not highly selective anyway, so no harm done really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She used, among other things, the Common Black App, which can go to 53 HB colleges. So it's not like she spent $5K and six months on applications. She just got accepted to a ton of schools, which is great news.

She wasn’t spending anything. Poor can apply to as many as they want - for free. Rich can afford it too. Middle class can.... oh nothing.