Student accepted at 115 colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh! Some of you are sooo mean! She did not hurt you or your child in anyway. She seems to have been poorly advised, but I doubt she had ill intent.

O.k., but what is the point of applying to 115 schools - especially if nearly all of them are all safeties and matches?

Because she likely goes to a crappy school with no advising. Please read the blog post that is part of this thread. People need to get out of their bubble for a minute to understand why students feel they have to do this, especially minority students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question- if a lot students have been using the Black Common App, are HBCUs acceptance rates plummeting? I saw another story about a girl getting accepted to 50+ schools thru the app.

HbCUs have never been that selective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh! Some of you are sooo mean! She did not hurt you or your child in anyway. She seems to have been poorly advised, but I doubt she had ill intent.

O.k., but what is the point of applying to 115 schools - especially if nearly all of them are all safeties and matches?

Because she likely goes to a crappy school with no advising. Please read the blog post that is part of this thread. People need to get out of their bubble for a minute to understand why students feel they have to do this, especially minority students.

Unless you’ve been cut off from the internet for the past decade you’d literally have to be an imbecile to think you HAD to apply to 115 schools. Exercise some common sense FFS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh! Some of you are sooo mean! She did not hurt you or your child in anyway. She seems to have been poorly advised, but I doubt she had ill intent.

O.k., but what is the point of applying to 115 schools - especially if nearly all of them are all safeties and matches?

Because she likely goes to a crappy school with no advising. Please read the blog post that is part of this thread. People need to get out of their bubble for a minute to understand why students feel they have to do this, especially minority students.

Hmm.. she was sophisticated enough to apply to Brandeis, so who advised her to do that? I have extreme difficulty believing she wouldn't have known that even applying to 40-50 schools would be over-doing it.

[Anonymous]

From the article: "Love says she lost count of how many schools she ended up applying to.
"I just kept applying," Love told CNN. "I wanted to see how many I could get into."

I think that's your answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about putting yourself in the shoes of this student and stop thinking about this from your own perspective and experiences? Here is a thoughtful blog post about why students have to do this.

https://jonboeckenstedt.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/our-annual-entitlement-ritual/?fbclid=IwAR1tjzCjQK9rX1hX8PR-4DNoXMq2czPTLIAFHtdonzt__lrdVO5CbT0Jw40

This blog post is not helpful in the least, not about this situation, and not helpful. It's about applying to 9 Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about putting yourself in the shoes of this student and stop thinking about this from your own perspective and experiences? Here is a thoughtful blog post about why students have to do this.

https://jonboeckenstedt.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/our-annual-entitlement-ritual/?fbclid=IwAR1tjzCjQK9rX1hX8PR-4DNoXMq2czPTLIAFHtdonzt__lrdVO5CbT0Jw40

This blog post is not helpful in the least, not about this situation, and not helpful. It's about applying to 9 Ivies.

Ivies are reaches for anyone, so I can see applying to all 9. But this student applied to dozens and dozens of schools that were safeties and matches. Seems like a publicity stunt more than anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about putting yourself in the shoes of this student and stop thinking about this from your own perspective and experiences? Here is a thoughtful blog post about why students have to do this.

https://jonboeckenstedt.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/our-annual-entitlement-ritual/?fbclid=IwAR1tjzCjQK9rX1hX8PR-4DNoXMq2czPTLIAFHtdonzt__lrdVO5CbT0Jw40

This blog post is not helpful in the least, not about this situation, and not helpful. It's about applying to 9 Ivies.

That's what you took away from it? You're an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh! Some of you are sooo mean! She did not hurt you or your child in anyway. She seems to have been poorly advised, but I doubt she had ill intent.

O.k., but what is the point of applying to 115 schools - especially if nearly all of them are all safeties and matches?

Because she likely goes to a crappy school with no advising. Please read the blog post that is part of this thread. People need to get out of their bubble for a minute to understand why students feel they have to do this, especially minority students.

Hmm.. she was sophisticated enough to apply to Brandeis, so who advised her to do that? I have extreme difficulty believing she wouldn't have known that even applying to 40-50 schools would be over-doing it.

One has to be sophisticated to apply to Brandeis? Ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh! Some of you are sooo mean! She did not hurt you or your child in anyway. She seems to have been poorly advised, but I doubt she had ill intent.

O.k., but what is the point of applying to 115 schools - especially if nearly all of them are all safeties and matches?

Because she likely goes to a crappy school with no advising. Please read the blog post that is part of this thread. People need to get out of their bubble for a minute to understand why students feel they have to do this, especially minority students.

Hmm.. she was sophisticated enough to apply to Brandeis, so who advised her to do that? I have extreme difficulty believing she wouldn't have known that even applying to 40-50 schools would be over-doing it.

One has to be sophisticated to apply to Brandeis? Ok.

Someone said her school had no counseling. When you look at the schools she got into the outlier was definitely Brandeis. So although her school has no counseling she was somehow savvy enough to pick a school in the Northeast with a 34% acceptance rate? Either she got counseling or she figured it out on her own, and if she can do that on her own she had to know 115 applications was excessive and unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

From the article: "Love says she lost count of how many schools she ended up applying to.
"I just kept applying," Love told CNN. "I wanted to see how many I could get into."

I think that's your answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about putting yourself in the shoes of this student and stop thinking about this from your own perspective and experiences? Here is a thoughtful blog post about why students have to do this.

https://jonboeckenstedt.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/our-annual-entitlement-ritual/?fbclid=IwAR1tjzCjQK9rX1hX8PR-4DNoXMq2czPTLIAFHtdonzt__lrdVO5CbT0Jw40

This blog post is not helpful in the least, not about this situation, and not helpful. It's about applying to 9 Ivies.

(There are eight Ivies.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I chuckled when I read this:

"She said she has no idea which school she will attend yet, though she's considering Louisiana State University, Valparaiso University, University of North Texas, Fisk University, Randolph University, Brandeis University and Mississippi State University."

One of these things is not like the others. Brandeis? In contention along with a bunch of southern schools and HBCUs? Seemed an unusual choice (I attended an HBCU myself, but my other choice was not Brandeis, lol).

Valpo is in northern Indiana. And very white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Question- if a lot students have been using the Black Common App, are HBCUs acceptance rates plummeting? I saw another story about a girl getting accepted to 50+ schools thru the app.

HbCUs have never been that selective.

A few are indeed selective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about putting yourself in the shoes of this student and stop thinking about this from your own perspective and experiences? Here is a thoughtful blog post about why students have to do this.

https://jonboeckenstedt.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/our-annual-entitlement-ritual/?fbclid=IwAR1tjzCjQK9rX1hX8PR-4DNoXMq2czPTLIAFHtdonzt__lrdVO5CbT0Jw40

This blog post is not helpful in the least, not about this situation, and not helpful. It's about applying to 9 Ivies.

That's what you took away from it? You're an idiot.

Please tell me how the blog post justifies applying to 115 schools.