So, where are your kids starting college next fall?

[Anonymous]

#Penn22!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read the comments of racists among us who posted in the following thread (there are many good people who defended the URMs and criticized the racist comments). The racists are strangely silent about the student who accepted 17 admission offers with 14 schools offering merit scholarships. I hope they show the same restraint in future with respect to URMs getting acceptance offers from multiple schools.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/719331.page

I don't really get the connection here to race at all. No one is questioning the kid being admitted to 17 schools, only that the student apparently accepted the offers of admission which presumably requires a deposit to each. I know they aren't huge $ (my DC's enrollment deposit was $300) but when you multiply that by 17 it's over $5000. I would have expected my kid to narrow down the list before forking over $300 per school. We don't know the race of the kid in question and don't really care.

Maybe the PP who posted about this neighbor kid can provide some insight on why the kid accepted 17 offers.

Here is my explanation. Yes, people commented only in terms of the money required to pay 17 deposits to those 17 schools. And I don't mean at all these commenters are racist. In fact, I don't this such comments indicate they may be racist. What I am saying is, nobody commented that 17 universities, though unnamed, could be very different in terms of FIT. Nobody commented the student was trophy collecting. Nobody commented she was taking away opportunities from her classmates by not only applying to 17 universities but also siting on 17 acceptances by paying deposits and not releasing even one university. That is because the racists in the thread I quoted are silent about this student's case. When you read the thread I quoted, you see those racists (some of whom went to Ivies and yet sadly never learned enough to shed their racist outlook) lamented about the URMs applying to all 8 ivies without regard to the "FIT", taking away opportunities from others (may be they are jealous because in spite of so many advantages they bestowed on their snowflakes, their snowflakes couldn't get into even the lowest of the low ivies!), the URMs were trophy hunting, called the media and advertised themselves to the whole world, etc. I understand this is an anonymous board so people feel free to express their true feelings. But I never knew there are people with such dark minds masquerading as civilized people in the society. I feel bad for the URMs and I am not even an URM.

You know there are more than a few posters here right? I have posted about the craziness of this kid accepting offers at 17 schools but have never posted to indicate that kids getting accepted to multiple schools are taking away spots from others. Because I know that's not actually the case, regardless of race. So maybe, just maybe, the posters on this thread are different than the ones on your other thread.

Plus we can assume that if the kid got merit offers at 14 of the 17 schools they weren't Ivies or even the very selective schools since most of those schools don't do merit, so we aren't talking about the same phenomenon at all.

And you "feel bad for the URMs"? That alone is racist.

[Anonymous]

And you "feel bad for the URMs"? That alone is racist.

Give me a frigging break! It seems in your book being empathetic to someone of a different race is being racist.

[Anonymous]

Yea, we are entering a land of surreality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were at a Junior admission panel meeting last week at our HS. It was made up of 4 seniors and 4 admissions reps. One of the seniors applied to 23 schools and I think the others were between 12 and 18.

Wow- interesting that those kids were chosen by counselors to “represent” students as a norm.

The students admitted it was not a good decision and recommended not to do what they did. They also had good stories about how competitive and unpredictable it was for them this year. Several of them did not get into what they thought were safety schools and none were admitted to their reach schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read the comments of racists among us who posted in the following thread (there are many good people who defended the URMs and criticized the racist comments). The racists are strangely silent about the student who accepted 17 admission offers with 14 schools offering merit scholarships. I hope they show the same restraint in future with respect to URMs getting acceptance offers from multiple schools.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/719331.page

How do you know that the kid who accepted 17 spots isn't URM? Why would anyone accept 17 spots before May 1st? All she needs to do is accept one on May 1st.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were at a Junior admission panel meeting last week at our HS. It was made up of 4 seniors and 4 admissions reps. One of the seniors applied to 23 schools and I think the others were between 12 and 18.

Wow- interesting that those kids were chosen by counselors to “represent” students as a norm.

Ridiculous! If you can't narrow it down more than that, you have no business applying. I'd love to see schools limit the number of apps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were at a Junior admission panel meeting last week at our HS. It was made up of 4 seniors and 4 admissions reps. One of the seniors applied to 23 schools and I think the others were between 12 and 18.

Wow- interesting that those kids were chosen by counselors to “represent” students as a norm.

Ridiculous! If you can't narrow it down more than that, you have no business applying. I'd love to see schools limit the number of apps.

+1. Spray and pray isn’t an intelligent approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read the comments of racists among us who posted in the following thread (there are many good people who defended the URMs and criticized the racist comments). The racists are strangely silent about the student who accepted 17 admission offers with 14 schools offering merit scholarships. I hope they show the same restraint in future with respect to URMs getting acceptance offers from multiple schools.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/719331.page

I don't really get the connection here to race at all. No one is questioning the kid being admitted to 17 schools, only that the student apparently accepted the offers of admission which presumably requires a deposit to each. I know they aren't huge $ (my DC's enrollment deposit was $300) but when you multiply that by 17 it's over $5000. I would have expected my kid to narrow down the list before forking over $300 per school. We don't know the race of the kid in question and don't really care.

Maybe the PP who posted about this neighbor kid can provide some insight on why the kid accepted 17 offers.

Here is my explanation. Yes, people commented only in terms of the money required to pay 17 deposits to those 17 schools. And I don't mean at all these commenters are racist. In fact, I don't this such comments indicate they may be racist. What I am saying is, nobody commented that 17 universities, though unnamed, could be very different in terms of FIT. Nobody commented the student was trophy collecting. Nobody commented she was taking away opportunities from her classmates by not only applying to 17 universities but also siting on 17 acceptances by paying deposits and not releasing even one university. That is because the racists in the thread I quoted are silent about this student's case. When you read the thread I quoted, you see those racists (some of whom went to Ivies and yet sadly never learned enough to shed their racist outlook) lamented about the URMs applying to all 8 ivies without regard to the "FIT", taking away opportunities from others (may be they are jealous because in spite of so many advantages they bestowed on their snowflakes, their snowflakes couldn't get into even the lowest of the low ivies!), the URMs were trophy hunting, called the media and advertised themselves to the whole world, etc. I understand this is an anonymous board so people feel free to express their true feelings. But I never knew there are people with such dark minds masquerading as civilized people in the society. I feel bad for the URMs and I am not even an URM.

You know there are more than a few posters here right? I have posted about the craziness of this kid accepting offers at 17 schools but have never posted to indicate that kids getting accepted to multiple schools are taking away spots from others. Because I know that's not actually the case, regardless of race. So maybe, just maybe, the posters on this thread are different than the ones on your other thread.

Plus we can assume that if the kid got merit offers at 14 of the 17 schools they weren't Ivies or even the very selective schools since most of those schools don't do merit, so we aren't talking about the same phenomenon at all.

And you "feel bad for the URMs"? That alone is racist.

I’m late to the party but what sort of imbecile accepts 17 offers of admission?

[Anonymous]

Harvard in the fall.

[Anonymous]

UVA!

[Anonymous]

And - in response to prior posters - that would be UVA over Chicago for nonfinancial reasons (the finances are a bonus). None of the student looked happy on the Chicago tour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA!

+1

[Anonymous]

University of Delaware in the Honors Program.

[Anonymous]

UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.