David Hogg just got into Harvard

[Anonymous]

I love how much this chaps people like PP.

Also, sure there are no true trolls here. What Guatemalan boy? Shutdown where? Mueller huhwhatdat? May all of you Trump propagandists expire on a piss-soaked bed courtesy of one of HOTUS’s “modeling” colleagues.

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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?

His reddit handle, thus comment history, was exposed a while back. On it he posted during last admissions cycle about being disappointed with his SAT score and crummy 9th and 10th grade marks. His dream school was Cal or UCLA, which he knew he had little chance of being admitted to.

Oh so he was doxed. Fabulous.

In any case he managed since 10th grade to demonstrate character and leadership qualities which are valuable to top colleges.

He was doxed and swatted.

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The conservative hatred is just unbelievable.

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Anonymous wrote:The conservative hatred is just unbelievable.

And it's all because of guns.

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LOL, what a joke. He couldn’t get into Nowhere State 8 months ago.

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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.

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+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.

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

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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.

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+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.

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

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+6. I thought the vitriol against this kid was funny at first. Now I think it’s really sad.

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Anonymous wrote:The conservative hatred is just unbelievable.

Not at all, but I have to believe there is a very deserving African American or Latino applicant with a much better academic record than Hogg who was excluded because Hogg is a media whore SJW.

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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?

His reddit handle, thus comment history, was exposed a while back. On it he posted during last admissions cycle about being disappointed with his SAT score and crummy 9th and 10th grade marks. His dream school was Cal or UCLA, which he knew he had little chance of being admitted to.

Oh so he was doxed. Fabulous.

In any case he managed since 10th grade to demonstrate character and leadership qualities which are valuable to top colleges.

I agree that the Ivies look for leadership quality. The question is whether or not they look for leadership qualities across the board, or just with causes they support. Private institution, their choice, I agree, but they will also take heat for those choices. Appropriately.

This, exactly. And the answer is, they will only see fit to reward those whose leadership qualities align with the causes they themselves support.

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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.

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?

Conservatives look down on anyone who considers Ivies to be the end-all, be-all of college education. It's a silly stereotype to say conservatives somehow have disdain for higher education. It's the liberal echo-chambers, in which no voices but those of liberals are allowed to be heard, that are looked down upon. Middlebury comes to mind.

It's not a stereotype. https://news.gallup.com/poll/216278/why-republicans-down-higher.aspx

Your link actually agrees with what the PP said. Read your link, it says "Republicans down on colleges cite politics, agenda, what is taught". As you can see, Republicans do not have disdain for higher education, but rather the liberal political echo-chamber that many colleges have become.

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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.

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

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+6. I thought the vitriol against this kid was funny at first. Now I think it’s really sad.

+7. The longer this thread goes on, the more pathetic it becomes.

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Hogg is going to an instant campus celebrity and hero at Harvard. That’s really got to get the goat of the MAGA crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:The conservative hatred is just unbelievable.

Not at all, but I have to believe there is a very deserving African American or Latino applicant with a much better academic record than Hogg who was excluded because Hogg is a media whore SJW.

Currently that is an indemand skill

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Anonymous wrote:The conservative hatred is just unbelievable.

Not at all, but I have to believe there is a very deserving African American or Latino applicant with a much better academic record than Hogg who was excluded because Hogg is a media whore SJW.

LOL. So now you guys suddenly pretend to care about URMs getting admitted?

Actually, the student he replaced is just one of those dime-a-dozen cookie-cutter applicants with perfect SAT scores, 4.5 GPAs, captain of three clubs, tennis (or insert other sport) prizes, violin (or insert other instrument) prizes, internship at (insert research lab, uncle or dad's friend's company, etc.) and a passion for changing the world through the nonprofit staffed by classmates in need of volunteer hours that he/she started to help (insert URM). They get hundreds, if not thousands of those every year, so one more or one fewer ain't gonna make any difference.

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One less place given to a deserving Questbridge applicant.