Sidwell Paid a family $50K and agree to change grades??????????

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What is a national achievement scholar vs. merit scholar?

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When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

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She is URM, a track athlete, great test scores, probably a full pay student.
A year later she is an engineering student at U Penn.
Yes, Sidwell probably didn’t support her applications as they could have. She didn’t get into Spellman because the application was late.

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Anonymous wrote:When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

+1 - Could have said it any better!

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She must’ve been a pretty bad student if her race couldn’t get her in anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:She is URM, a track athlete, great test scores, probably a full pay student.
A year later she is an engineering student at U Penn.
Yes, Sidwell probably didn’t support her applications as they could have. She didn’t get into Spellman because the application was late.

As the child of first gen African immigrants she is likely an over-represented minority taking a spot from an applicant that affirmative action was actually created for.

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Anonymous wrote:When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

+1000 ?spot on!

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She is a student, an athlete, NMSF. She is Black. Her parents are well to do.
According to DCUM, she should be a shoo in anywhere.
something is not right.

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Anonymous wrote:When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

She was not one of NMSF If you have read the entire thread. Her award is not psat grade-based. I got confused at beginning and then somebody pointed out. Also she had a C in her transcript. So she could not be the real top student In her class in Sidwell.

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Anonymous wrote:She is a student, an athlete, NMSF. She is Black. Her parents are well to do.
According to DCUM, she should be a shoo in anywhere.
something is not right.

As hard as it may be for some people to grasp this, the girl most likely received very lukewarm or even damning college recommendation letters from the teachers. Not because she was black, not because she was the daughter of immigrants, but because she most likely had an attitude they did not like. There are kids every year who apply to top colleges with top grades and scores and get rejected because the teacher recs were weak because the students were not likable. And it sounds like this particular girl, perhaps influenced by her parents, was just not likable. I certainly remember unlikable kids from my graduating class. Arrogant, pushy, obnoxious, despite having excellent grades and scores, and they were white, too.

When colleges see that the recs are weak and even imply unpleasant characteristics in the student, they are quick to reject because they have so many to pick from.

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It looks like the math teacher had it in for Dayo.
”.... Id. Kozibrodzka continued to manipulate Dayo’s grades to her detriment. Id. On one occasion Kozibrod- zka conceded that her grading was incorrect and was forced, by Dayo’s protest before the entire class, to change her grade from an 81% to an 89%. Id. Ms. Kozibrodzka also made academic achievement difficult for Dayo in various other ways, but most significantly by failing to make the same allowances for Dayo’s hectic schedule as an out of state track competitor, as she did for Dayo’s white peers in the same predica- ment. Id. By the end of the 2011-2012 scholastic year, Kozibrodzka’s manipulative and retaliatory grading practices resulted in Dayo receiving a “C+/C,” which successfully prevented Dayo’s matriculation to Math III—which entrance into required a minimum grade of “B.” Id.”

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“Mr. Farquhar, having clearly grown frustrated by the Parents’ advo- cacy on behalf of Dayo, angrily blurted out during a meeting “all of the teachers want the Adetus gone, gone, gone from the School,” and that “non-retaliation [against Dayo] is now off the table.” Id. at 65a.”

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And another teacher ...

Mr. Markey, Dayo’s Calculus teacher during her 2012-2013 scholastic year, followed Ms. Kozibrodzka’s example and began manipulating Dayo’s math grades as well. For the fall calculus course, Mr. Markey graded Dayo as an “A-” instead of an “A,” although Dayo had
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earned a final score of 93.112%, which according to Sidwell’s own policy constitutes an “A”. Id. at 65a-66a. Mr. Markey would not review his grading error. Id. He also refused to advance Dayo to BC Calculus claim- ing that she had not earned the requisite “A” grade to enter the class. Id. For the second time, Dayo was being held back.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is a student, an athlete, NMSF. She is Black. Her parents are well to do.
According to DCUM, she should be a shoo in anywhere.
something is not right.

As hard as it may be for some people to grasp this, the girl most likely received very lukewarm or even damning college recommendation letters from the teachers. Not because she was black, not because she was the daughter of immigrants, but because she most likely had an attitude they did not like. There are kids every year who apply to top colleges with top grades and scores and get rejected because the teacher recs were weak because the students were not likable. And it sounds like this particular girl, perhaps influenced by her parents, was just not likable. I certainly remember unlikable kids from my graduating class. Arrogant, pushy, obnoxious, despite having excellent grades and scores, and they were white, too.

When colleges see that the recs are weak and even imply unpleasant characteristics in the student, they are quick to reject because they have so many to pick from.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is a student, an athlete, NMSF. She is Black. Her parents are well to do.
According to DCUM, she should be a shoo in anywhere.
something is not right.

As hard as it may be for some people to grasp this, the girl most likely received very lukewarm or even damning college recommendation letters from the teachers. Not because she was black, not because she was the daughter of immigrants, but because she most likely had an attitude they did not like. There are kids every year who apply to top colleges with top grades and scores and get rejected because the teacher recs were weak because the students were not likable. And it sounds like this particular girl, perhaps influenced by her parents, was just not likable. I certainly remember unlikable kids from my graduating class. Arrogant, pushy, obnoxious, despite having excellent grades and scores, and they were white, too.

When colleges see that the recs are weak and even imply unpleasant characteristics in the student, they are quick to reject because they have so many to pick from.

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Teachers can sabotage kids’ future like this based on who they like ? Who’s likeable enough?
Teachers should also be held accountable. I can certainly understand a neutral recommendation, but not an outright “damning” recommendation.

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