David Hogg just got into Harvard

[Anonymous]

It just proves there's affirmative action for social justice warriors, because he certainly didn't get in based on academic merit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is a 17 year old’s acceptance into Harvard a 12 page debate?

Congratulation him or move on. So much truly pathetic vitriol for a kid who survived a mass shooting.

+1. He could have huddled under his bed through his senior year traumatized by a mass shooting and instead he did something good for the world. Congratulations to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is a 17 year old’s acceptance into Harvard a 12 page debate?

Congratulation him or move on. So much truly pathetic vitriol for a kid who survived a mass shooting.

13 pages now. Yes, it is pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is a 17 year old’s acceptance into Harvard a 12 page debate?

Congratulation him or move on. So much truly pathetic vitriol for a kid who survived a mass shooting.

+1. He could have huddled under his bed through his senior year traumatized by a mass shooting and instead he did something good for the world. Congratulations to him.

+2.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny to see how this kids success hurts supposedly grown adults. You just can’t help yourselves. Sad!

I agree! It’s pretty pathetic, really.

I read last week that Ariel Winter (Alex on Modern Family) got into two Ivys and is attending UCLA. Also that her mother neglected her and she never attended school, and never really got an education, period. (Yes. I am guilty of being really bored at the doctors office). Of the many things she is (and I don’t actually know that much about her), mental heavyweight or even spectacular actress does not seem to come in at the top of the list, based on watching a couple of seasons early in its run and reading an article about her. But two Ivy League schools thought she added something to their class. And there was almost no uproar that I saw about her acceptance.

The problem isn’t undeserving. I suspect Ariel Winter was undeserving. I know Jared Kushner was. The problem is social activist (for some) and SATs 300 points lower than my kid’s (for others).

To those on the right— get over it. A kid whose politics you disagree with succeeded. You may disagree with him. You may not like his personality. But he accomplished something by getting a million kids to march against guns and getting gun laws changed. You know it. I know it. Harvard knows it. And you look petty insisting his accomplishments are Fake News. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

To those whose kids didn’t make the EA Ivy cut— get over it. Like many tiger moms on here, I also have a kid at TJ. And next year, he will almost certainly not be getting into an Ivy either. To begin with, we are donut hole and can’t afford it. Also, he’s pretty solidly top half, but not top quarter of his class. He is a great kid. He has worked incredibly hard. He “deserves the best” (in my eyes at least). And he will go to a great college and be fine. Saying some other kid doesn’t “deserve” Harvard is petty and unbecoming. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

Nothing like the intersection of Ivy League Admissions and political activism to bring bring all the petty little bitches out to snipe on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is a 17 year old’s acceptance into Harvard a 12 page debate?

Congratulation him or move on. So much truly pathetic vitriol for a kid who survived a mass shooting.

+1. He could have huddled under his bed through his senior year traumatized by a mass shooting and instead he did something good for the world. Congratulations to him.

+2.

+3. #notonemore. So proud of those parkland kids. They’ve done great things in the gun control area where the adults around them have been stuck and unable to move forward for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just proves there's affirmative action for social justice warriors, because he certainly didn't get in based on academic merit.

Show me on the doll where Harvard hurt you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is a 17 year old’s acceptance into Harvard a 12 page debate?

Congratulation him or move on. So much truly pathetic vitriol for a kid who survived a mass shooting.

+1. He could have huddled under his bed through his senior year traumatized by a mass shooting and instead he did something good for the world. Congratulations to him.

+2.

+3. #notonemore. So proud of those parkland kids. They’ve done great things in the gun control area where the adults around them have been stuck and unable to move forward for a long time.

+4
So many Bitter Bettys here. If Trumpsters don't think much of college then why do they care about where people choose to go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just proves there's affirmative action for social justice warriors, because he certainly didn't get in based on academic merit.

How did you get access to his academic records and application/ essays/ recommendations not know this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The syntax of his tweets and his vernacular suggest a teen who doesn’t read, at all, and he has the writing ability of a bright 7th grader. I’m not being hyperbolic. It says a lot that someone so average would even have the gall to apply to Harvard. A true opportunist squeezing every last drop from a local tragedy. And obviously it’s a joke he was admitted.

Judging someone's writing ability based on twitter has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

And yet that seems to be the favorite pastime of liberals here on DCUM when it comes to Trump.
-DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny to see how this kids success hurts supposedly grown adults. You just can’t help yourselves. Sad!

I agree! It’s pretty pathetic, really.

I read last week that Ariel Winter (Alex on Modern Family) got into two Ivys and is attending UCLA. Also that her mother neglected her and she never attended school, and never really got an education, period. (Yes. I am guilty of being really bored at the doctors office). Of the many things she is (and I don’t actually know that much about her), mental heavyweight or even spectacular actress does not seem to come in at the top of the list, based on watching a couple of seasons early in its run and reading an article about her. But two Ivy League schools thought she added something to their class. And there was almost no uproar that I saw about her acceptance.

The problem isn’t undeserving. I suspect Ariel Winter was undeserving. I know Jared Kushner was. The problem is social activist (for some) and SATs 300 points lower than my kid’s (for others).

To those on the right— get over it. A kid whose politics you disagree with succeeded. You may disagree with him. You may not like his personality. But he accomplished something by getting a million kids to march against guns and getting gun laws changed. You know it. I know it. Harvard knows it. And you look petty insisting his accomplishments are Fake News. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

To those whose kids didn’t make the EA Ivy cut— get over it. Like many tiger moms on here, I also have a kid at TJ. And next year, he will almost certainly not be getting into an Ivy either. To begin with, we are donut hole and can’t afford it. Also, he’s pretty solidly top half, but not top quarter of his class. He is a great kid. He has worked incredibly hard. He “deserves the best” (in my eyes at least). And he will go to a great college and be fine. Saying some other kid doesn’t “deserve” Harvard is petty and unbecoming. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

Nothing like the intersection of Ivy League Admissions and political activism to bring bring all the petty little bitches out to snipe on DCUM.

I agree with what you're saying. However, will you (all of you, not just you, PP) be as gracious if a conservative activist kid with similar stats is accepted to an Ivy? Doubtful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny to see how this kids success hurts supposedly grown adults. You just can’t help yourselves. Sad!

I agree! It’s pretty pathetic, really.

I read last week that Ariel Winter (Alex on Modern Family) got into two Ivys and is attending UCLA. Also that her mother neglected her and she never attended school, and never really got an education, period. (Yes. I am guilty of being really bored at the doctors office). Of the many things she is (and I don’t actually know that much about her), mental heavyweight or even spectacular actress does not seem to come in at the top of the list, based on watching a couple of seasons early in its run and reading an article about her. But two Ivy League schools thought she added something to their class. And there was almost no uproar that I saw about her acceptance.

The problem isn’t undeserving. I suspect Ariel Winter was undeserving. I know Jared Kushner was. The problem is social activist (for some) and SATs 300 points lower than my kid’s (for others).

To those on the right— get over it. A kid whose politics you disagree with succeeded. You may disagree with him. You may not like his personality. But he accomplished something by getting a million kids to march against guns and getting gun laws changed. You know it. I know it. Harvard knows it. And you look petty insisting his accomplishments are Fake News. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

To those whose kids didn’t make the EA Ivy cut— get over it. Like many tiger moms on here, I also have a kid at TJ. And next year, he will almost certainly not be getting into an Ivy either. To begin with, we are donut hole and can’t afford it. Also, he’s pretty solidly top half, but not top quarter of his class. He is a great kid. He has worked incredibly hard. He “deserves the best” (in my eyes at least). And he will go to a great college and be fine. Saying some other kid doesn’t “deserve” Harvard is petty and unbecoming. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

Nothing like the intersection of Ivy League Admissions and political activism to bring bring all the petty little bitches out to snipe on DCUM.

I agree with what you're saying. However, will you (all of you, not just you, PP) be as gracious if a conservative activist kid with similar stats is accepted to an Ivy? Doubtful.

DP here and honest to god I cannot fathom being obsessed by an admissions decision even if it were mini-Rush Limbaugh. I mean really. I am certain there are many Ivy students who were accepted simply because parents are huge donors. So what. Private schools are at liberty tp accept whomever they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny to see how this kids success hurts supposedly grown adults. You just can’t help yourselves. Sad!

I agree! It’s pretty pathetic, really.

I read last week that Ariel Winter (Alex on Modern Family) got into two Ivys and is attending UCLA. Also that her mother neglected her and she never attended school, and never really got an education, period. (Yes. I am guilty of being really bored at the doctors office). Of the many things she is (and I don’t actually know that much about her), mental heavyweight or even spectacular actress does not seem to come in at the top of the list, based on watching a couple of seasons early in its run and reading an article about her. But two Ivy League schools thought she added something to their class. And there was almost no uproar that I saw about her acceptance.

The problem isn’t undeserving. I suspect Ariel Winter was undeserving. I know Jared Kushner was. The problem is social activist (for some) and SATs 300 points lower than my kid’s (for others).

To those on the right— get over it. A kid whose politics you disagree with succeeded. You may disagree with him. You may not like his personality. But he accomplished something by getting a million kids to march against guns and getting gun laws changed. You know it. I know it. Harvard knows it. And you look petty insisting his accomplishments are Fake News. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

To those whose kids didn’t make the EA Ivy cut— get over it. Like many tiger moms on here, I also have a kid at TJ. And next year, he will almost certainly not be getting into an Ivy either. To begin with, we are donut hole and can’t afford it. Also, he’s pretty solidly top half, but not top quarter of his class. He is a great kid. He has worked incredibly hard. He “deserves the best” (in my eyes at least). And he will go to a great college and be fine. Saying some other kid doesn’t “deserve” Harvard is petty and unbecoming. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

Nothing like the intersection of Ivy League Admissions and political activism to bring bring all the petty little bitches out to snipe on DCUM.

I agree with what you're saying. However, will you (all of you, not just you, PP) be as gracious if a conservative activist kid with similar stats is accepted to an Ivy? Doubtful.

I thought conservatives looked down on Ivies. Why would one want to go there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The syntax of his tweets and his vernacular suggest a teen who doesn’t read, at all, and he has the writing ability of a bright 7th grader. I’m not being hyperbolic. It says a lot that someone so average would even have the gall to apply to Harvard. A true opportunist squeezing every last drop from a local tragedy. And obviously it’s a joke he was admitted.

Judging someone's writing ability based on twitter has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

And yet that seems to be the favorite pastime of liberals here on DCUM when it comes to Trump.
-DP

Trump has offered no evidence of his intellect to the contrary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny to see how this kids success hurts supposedly grown adults. You just can’t help yourselves. Sad!

I agree! It’s pretty pathetic, really.

I read last week that Ariel Winter (Alex on Modern Family) got into two Ivys and is attending UCLA. Also that her mother neglected her and she never attended school, and never really got an education, period. (Yes. I am guilty of being really bored at the doctors office). Of the many things she is (and I don’t actually know that much about her), mental heavyweight or even spectacular actress does not seem to come in at the top of the list, based on watching a couple of seasons early in its run and reading an article about her. But two Ivy League schools thought she added something to their class. And there was almost no uproar that I saw about her acceptance.

The problem isn’t undeserving. I suspect Ariel Winter was undeserving. I know Jared Kushner was. The problem is social activist (for some) and SATs 300 points lower than my kid’s (for others).

To those on the right— get over it. A kid whose politics you disagree with succeeded. You may disagree with him. You may not like his personality. But he accomplished something by getting a million kids to march against guns and getting gun laws changed. You know it. I know it. Harvard knows it. And you look petty insisting his accomplishments are Fake News. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

To those whose kids didn’t make the EA Ivy cut— get over it. Like many tiger moms on here, I also have a kid at TJ. And next year, he will almost certainly not be getting into an Ivy either. To begin with, we are donut hole and can’t afford it. Also, he’s pretty solidly top half, but not top quarter of his class. He is a great kid. He has worked incredibly hard. He “deserves the best” (in my eyes at least). And he will go to a great college and be fine. Saying some other kid doesn’t “deserve” Harvard is petty and unbecoming. Just be gracious. It won’t kill you.

Nothing like the intersection of Ivy League Admissions and political activism to bring bring all the petty little bitches out to snipe on DCUM.

I agree with what you're saying. However, will you (all of you, not just you, PP) be as gracious if a conservative activist kid with similar stats is accepted to an Ivy? Doubtful.

I am the PP. And yep. Because I went to a college a college in the south with a number of very bright, very conservative kids (including a friend who had Newt posters on his dorm room wall circa 1993). And I do think different viewpoints and different strengths and talents creates a richer learning environment. And because if I disagree with a college’s admissions policies, I can choose not to send my kid there. Which is why my kid will not be attending Liberty.

So, I would maintain that someone who has made a similarly significant contribution to the anti-abortion movement or Ted Cruz’s re-election campaign may well have a place in Harvard’s campus, even with lower SAT scores.

Besides, how do you ever learn to think and debate and understand complex arguments if you are never exposed to people who passionately hold a different viewpoint? If your worldview is sound and reflects genuinely held beliefs, it will survive. If not, maybe it’s time to rethink.