interesting article about college admissions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're gonna need a really big, flashing neon VBA sign for your 2nd post. So nice that you can be big donors. BTW, my oldest, a Princeton legacy by virtue of DH, got in without our contributing big bucks, though he did rock the SATs. Fortunately, he has cultivated a nice sense of self-deprecating humor to avoid being an insufferable a-hole. I'd work on that if I were you, PP.

So he got in b/c of his legacy status. I always assume if someone is a legacy at an Ivy they got in b/c they are a legacy and so does everyone else including most legacies except you apparently. Being a big donor is another plus. Get over yourself.

if someone said this about a minority applicant in reference to affirmative action, the third world war would break out. they are similar, if not identical, conclusions. loser legacies don't get into top tier schools purely because of legacy status any more than loser minorities get in purely because of their minority status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No really, it's insufferable. The little slap about nobody wanting to visit her overseas -- maybe her friends have their own Christmas plans, or maybe they can't afford $900 round trip fares for a 1-week visit (or maybe they too think she's insufferable, perhaps in other ways).

Frankly, her kids are hanging out with rich diplomats' and financiers' kids in a little ghetto of privilege called "The American School of Country X" (my DH attended several of these in various countries) or some such thing. This talk about "the real world" and "preparing themselves according to what we're seeing and experiencing out here" in London or Brussels or whatever is BS. My kids have been to Soweto and are headed to another 3rd world poverty trap, and that's the real world.

If Insufferable Poster is sending her kids to the local lycee to study in french with the Algerian immigrants' kids, I'll eat my hat and retract the "insufferable" moniker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're gonna need a really big, flashing neon VBA sign for your 2nd post. So nice that you can be big donors. BTW, my oldest, a Princeton legacy by virtue of DH, got in without our contributing big bucks, though he did rock the SATs. Fortunately, he has cultivated a nice sense of self-deprecating humor to avoid being an insufferable a-hole. I'd work on that if I were you, PP.

So he got in b/c of his legacy status. I always assume if someone is a legacy at an Ivy they got in b/c they are a legacy and so does everyone else including most legacies except you apparently. Being a big donor is another plus. Get over yourself.

if someone said this about a minority applicant in reference to affirmative action, the third world war would break out. they are similar, if not identical, conclusions. loser legacies don't get into top tier schools purely because of legacy status any more than loser minorities get in purely because of their minority status.

Both are worth at least 100 SAT points. There have been lots of studies on this. I don't want to get into a spat about this issue, because on DCUM it would get really ugly really fast. But the studies are definitive.