Any Parents Privately Disappointed with College Placement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know both students and families and they are excited about the choice. It works for what both the specific families/students want, including the possibility of one of the students playing Division I football in the Big Ten (which seems cool to me). These are students who had choices and liked their choice of IU.

Maybe there is another St. Albans parent posting on here, or maybe someone else not affiliated with St. Albans who saw the Commencement day newspaper day list of colleges, who knows.

I would say, and I know it's a bit preachy a day ahead of time (this is Saturday), that it's an odd conversation to fixate on college choices made by a couple specific kids, and it is unkind to use this anonymous forum as a way to denigrate those choices.[/quote]

+1 -- Nothing preachy about it at all, PP. And besides being unkind, it's also unenlightening.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Is it me or does getting so specific about a college and the high school of two children seem like bullying? Even the back and forth on why said child is going to a certain school--really aren't the posters on DCUM supposed to be highly intelligent? So I am thinking the posters opining and getting specific on their opinining are either dumb or just nasty..and I am not sure which is worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it me or does getting so specific about a college and the high school of two children seem like bullying? Even the back and forth on why said child is going to a certain school--really aren't the posters on DCUM supposed to be highly intelligent? So I am thinking the posters opining and getting specific on their opinining are either dumb or just nasty..and I am not sure which is worse.

Bwahahaha! Although dumb and nasty aren't mutually exclusive, so I vote for both.

[Anonymous]

I graduated from Indiana-Bloomington even THE Kelley School of Business. Never studied and graduated with a high GPA. I only had two professors during my four years. I would not let my DCs consider the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I graduated from Indiana-Bloomington even THE Kelley School of Business. Never studied and graduated with a high GPA. I only had two professors during my four years. I would not let my DCs consider the school.

Did you get a job upon graduation (unlike many many students graduating from college today)? You wouldn't be monitoring this board if you were not mildly successful in life. Assming yes, I would suggest that settles the point.

[Anonymous]

One thing that is not mentioned is money. My husband and I will be considering finances when it comes to college choices. some of the elite colleges only offer aid for need. Some other colleges offer substantial merit-based aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it me or does getting so specific about a college and the high school of two children seem like bullying? Even the back and forth on why said child is going to a certain school--really aren't the posters on DCUM supposed to be highly intelligent? So I am thinking the posters opining and getting specific on their opinining are either dumb or just nasty..and I am not sure which is worse.

Bwahahaha! Although dumb and nasty aren't mutually exclusive, so I vote for both.

Maybe STA should take a lesson from Sidwell and stop publishing its matriculation list. If a few kids get accepted at HYP you can't wait to jump on here and start bragging. The conversation in those cases could easily slip into debating the merits of those candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it me or does getting so specific about a college and the high school of two children seem like bullying? Even the back and forth on why said child is going to a certain school--really aren't the posters on DCUM supposed to be highly intelligent? So I am thinking the posters opining and getting specific on their opinining are either dumb or just nasty..and I am not sure which is worse.

Bwahahaha! Although dumb and nasty aren't mutually exclusive, so I vote for both.

Maybe STA should take a lesson from Sidwell and stop publishing its matriculation list. If a few kids get accepted at HYP you can't wait to jump on here and start bragging. The conversation in those cases could easily slip into debating the merits of those candidates.

This is probably ture.

BUt, to 100% fair, the STA acceptances are always driven to some degree by legacies. Now, trolls and what have you, don't come out attacking this post with the knives. We all know its very true that legacies play a big part. That said, there are DEFINITELY men who are accepted on their merits without the legacy hitch. Con

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all know its very true that legacies play a big part.

Just curious ... how do you know that? I suppose some students need that legacy boost to get admitted to some colleges, but I have no idea how much it matters or for how many students. How do you know?

[Anonymous]

Legacy admission is huge at SLAC and the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

I guess, if the parents are SLAC and Ivy alumni the math about legacy admission for offspring is as easy as 1, 2, and 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it me or does getting so specific about a college and the high school of two children seem like bullying? Even the back and forth on why said child is going to a certain school--really aren't the posters on DCUM supposed to be highly intelligent? So I am thinking the posters opining and getting specific on their opinining are either dumb or just nasty..and I am not sure which is worse.

Bwahahaha! Although dumb and nasty aren't mutually exclusive, so I vote for both.

Maybe STA should take a lesson from Sidwell and stop publishing its matriculation list. If a few kids get accepted at HYP you can't wait to jump on here and start bragging. The conversation in those cases could easily slip into debating the merits of those candidates.

The school does not publish a matriculation list. In past years the student newspaper did so -- this year that was not the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe STA should take a lesson from Sidwell and stop publishing its matriculation list. If a few kids get accepted at HYP you can't wait to jump on here and start bragging. The conversation in those cases could easily slip into debating the merits of those candidates.

The school does not publish a matriculation list. In past years the student newspaper did so -- this year that was not the case.

STA certainly toots its college matriculation horn here [http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=2722] and here [http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=722]. There may be other places too. Perhaps if STA really wants to stop publishing a matriculation list, it should quit posting the info on its website.

[Anonymous]

So many SLAC and IVY alumni in the area sent their kids to STA.