College Admissions Results for Class of 2018 - Nightmare or Pleasant Suprise?

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Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

I think it was the comrades -- the self-styled SJW-types -- who needed to have their world protected from culturally-insensitive Halloween costumes, and then launched their own little Cultural Revolution to drive out a Yale college master (oops! they can't use that word now) and his wife.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

Professor and wife who also lost their home and were ousted as headmaster.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

NP (and a former professor). Actually, prof was a grandstanding a-hole who, with his media activist friend in tow to film it, deliberately provoked a confrontation with students. No way in hell he or his wife should be in a position that involves serving a student support role in a residential college system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

NP (and a former professor). Actually, prof was a grandstanding a-hole who, with his media activist friend in tow to film it, deliberately provoked a confrontation with students. No way in hell he or his wife should be in a position that involves serving a student support role in a residential college system.

Citations for these claims please?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

NP (and a former professor). Actually, prof was a grandstanding a-hole who, with his media activist friend in tow to film it, deliberately provoked a confrontation with students. No way in hell he or his wife should be in a position that involves serving a student support role in a residential college system.

If true the students sure fell right into the trap didn't they? Their behavior and outrage over a perfectly sensible position was childish, vulgar and disgraceful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

NP (and a former professor). Actually, prof was a grandstanding a-hole who, with his media activist friend in tow to film it, deliberately provoked a confrontation with students. No way in hell he or his wife should be in a position that involves serving a student support role in a residential college system.

I don't know on what basis you make those claims. The prof seemed very credible and he behaved very professionally in an obviously stressful situation dealing with students that came across as deranged in their disregard for logic and insanely entitled and disrespectful. You can make up whatever stories you'd like about the prof (although I question your intentions) but the students disgraceful behavior is there on the video for the world to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

+100
I would be so embarrassed if I had a child at Yale during that incident, or if I had been a student there. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

NP (and a former professor). Actually, prof was a grandstanding a-hole who, with his media activist friend in tow to film it, deliberately provoked a confrontation with students. No way in hell he or his wife should be in a position that involves serving a student support role in a residential college system.

Then the poor snowflakes complained about the term college master, which they got the Yale administration to change. Of course, the term dates from the English university system and has nothing to do with the U.S. slavery system. Clearly these dummy students are no "masters" of history!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

+100
I would be so embarrassed if I had a child at Yale during that incident, or if I had been a student there. Unbelievable.

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We're a Yale family. DC would have been triple legacy plus faculty member in family. After that charade DC didn't even bother to apply. And the PC stuff just continues to roil the environment there Not worth it. And no more contributions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

NP (and a former professor). Actually, prof was a grandstanding a-hole who, with his media activist friend in tow to film it, deliberately provoked a confrontation with students. No way in hell he or his wife should be in a position that involves serving a student support role in a residential college system.

I don't know on what basis you make those claims. The prof seemed very credible and he behaved very professionally in an obviously stressful situation dealing with students that came across as deranged in their disregard for logic and insanely entitled and disrespectful. You can make up whatever stories you'd like about the prof (although I question your intentions) but the students disgraceful behavior is there on the video for the world to see.

You saw a clip filmed by an activist which started about an hour into the discussion. Lacking context, your impression is simply calm white man has to deal with deranged, uppity (aka entitled) black girl. Barbarians at the gate. What has Yale come to? That’s the narrative F.I.R.E. is promoting and it did so effectively. It was not, however, how Yale’s administrators (Salovey, Holloway) saw the event, but, hey, the anti-PC narrative provides a built-in response — they've gone crazy and caved to the cry-bullies, entitled snowflakes, etc.

I make the claims I’ve made on the basis of reading broadly about this incident (e.g. Yale Daily news, PEN report, Jelani Cobb article in the New Yorker, Dean’s original email, EChristakis’s response), some familiarity with F.I.R.E.’s MO, an awareness of the tendency of Lukianoff and EChristakis to promote each other’s work, knowledge of a parallel situation at Harvard in 2012, and experience as a prof which gives me an understanding of the role of residential masters, courtesy appointments, campus policies on filming, and how to deal productively with antagonistic students. And my teaching fields/academic interests include media, public opinion formation, First Amendment issues, race and representation among other things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ apologies. Tulane acceptance rate 26%, tougher than I thought.

Tulane apparently thinks the smart kids don’t really wish to attend and you’ve got to keep those admission stats up. Hope DC enjoys Alabama.

Alabama is a great school. For what it's worth, my daughter turned down Yale for University of Florida. She graduated two years ago. No regrets. She loved her college experience. And she had a great job offer before she graduated.

That's understandable. It's gone completely off the rails.

At least Florida doesn't get spooked over a few Halloween costumes that offend the "P.C. police."

You clearly have no understanding of the set of issues Yale was dealing with simultaneously. Simple reduction into a talking point that supports your view of the world, aye comrade.

It's really not that hard to understand. It was disgraceful the way those ignorant students treated that professor.

NP (and a former professor). Actually, prof was a grandstanding a-hole who, with his media activist friend in tow to film it, deliberately provoked a confrontation with students. No way in hell he or his wife should be in a position that involves serving a student support role in a residential college system.

I don't know on what basis you make those claims. The prof seemed very credible and he behaved very professionally in an obviously stressful situation dealing with students that came across as deranged in their disregard for logic and insanely entitled and disrespectful. You can make up whatever stories you'd like about the prof (although I question your intentions) but the students disgraceful behavior is there on the video for the world to see.

You saw a clip filmed by an activist which started about an hour into the discussion. Lacking context, your impression is simply calm white man has to deal with deranged, uppity (aka entitled) black girl. Barbarians at the gate. What has Yale come to? That’s the narrative F.I.R.E. is promoting and it did so effectively. It was not, however, how Yale’s administrators (Salovey, Holloway) saw the event, but, hey, the anti-PC narrative provides a built-in response — they've gone crazy and caved to the cry-bullies, entitled snowflakes, etc.

I make the claims I’ve made on the basis of reading broadly about this incident (e.g. Yale Daily news, PEN report, Jelani Cobb article in the New Yorker, Dean’s original email, EChristakis’s response), some familiarity with F.I.R.E.’s MO, an awareness of the tendency of Lukianoff and EChristakis to promote each other’s work, knowledge of a parallel situation at Harvard in 2012, and experience as a prof which gives me an understanding of the role of residential masters, courtesy appointments, campus policies on filming, and how to deal productively with antagonistic students. And my teaching fields/academic interests include media, public opinion formation, First Amendment issues, race and representation among other things.

I saw a very rude, vulgar young woman who refused to engage in a dialogue or even attempt to listen to and understand an opposing opinion. I saw a professor who calmly listened to a student and attempted to have intelligent discourse in a non-emotive way but who was met with hysterical profanity and insults. You go ahead and craft whatever backstory you wish, I really could 't care less, but the video doesn't lie.