TMZ reporting Parkland leader David Hogg just got into Harvard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has become a parody of itself. For shame.

No. This thread is a parody. Clueless and simultaneously envious parents who are obsessed with grades and rank instead of quality of the students they are raising. Good for Hogg and good for Harvard.

+1 I wonder if Russian trolls have taken over some of these posts to discredit a child who will clearly be the kind of leader necessary for the survival of our democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has become a parody of itself. For shame.

No. This thread is a parody. Clueless and simultaneously envious parents who are obsessed with grades and rank instead of quality of the students they are raising. Good for Hogg and good for Harvard.

Parents cluelessly push their kids to be robotic students. AP scholar! National Merit! If you over study to achieve those things, leaving no time for other endeavors, it wasn’t worth doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has become a parody of itself. For shame.

No. This thread is a parody. Clueless and simultaneously envious parents who are obsessed with grades and rank instead of quality of the students they are raising. Good for Hogg and good for Harvard.

+1 I wonder if Russian trolls have taken over some of these posts to discredit a child who will clearly be the kind of leader necessary for the survival of our democracy.

No - most parents are really this stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With Hogg and the Islamic south Asian kid who wrote blm 100 times for his Stanford essay, I can see middle school parents start to get their kids starting social justice clubs and groups by the thousands across the country.

It’s a great hook.

I found find your comment so distasteful. What this kid and his classmates went through I wouldn't ever want my kids to experience even if it meant they would get automatically accepted into Harvard. He heard the screams and anguish of his classmates. He tried to escape and flee but luckily a janitor told him to turn back and hide. He hid with other students in a closet like sitting ducks hoping not to get slaughtered. He was texting with his little sister hoping she didn't get killed either.
Then to be strong enough to lead a youth movement against gun violence is remarkable.

He certainly didn't do it for a hook.

All of this is true. I feel for all of those kids. But it has nothing to do about his qualifications to attend an elite university. Our country is bizarre. An elite education, with the best professors, the best labs and libraries and the most intellectual peers (all subsidized by both the US government and by US philanthropy), should be reserved for those who are most academically able to use this opportunity to better our country. We fritter away those extremely limited spots trying to make social policy, and by "enhancing diversity" to bring in a large number of international students. Are we better off helping kids from all backgrounds attend college? Yes, but not at our top institutions. Meanwhile, we push more able kids down the food chain in a weird mismatch of talent and resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With Hogg and the Islamic south Asian kid who wrote blm 100 times for his Stanford essay, I can see middle school parents start to get their kids starting social justice clubs and groups by the thousands across the country.

It’s a great hook.

I found find your comment so distasteful. What this kid and his classmates went through I wouldn't ever want my kids to experience even if it meant they would get automatically accepted into Harvard. He heard the screams and anguish of his classmates. He tried to escape and flee but luckily a janitor told him to turn back and hide. He hid with other students in a closet like sitting ducks hoping not to get slaughtered. He was texting with his little sister hoping she didn't get killed either.
Then to be strong enough to lead a youth movement against gun violence is remarkable.

He certainly didn't do it for a hook.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With Hogg and the Islamic south Asian kid who wrote blm 100 times for his Stanford essay, I can see middle school parents start to get their kids starting social justice clubs and groups by the thousands across the country.

It’s a great hook.

I found find your comment so distasteful. What this kid and his classmates went through I wouldn't ever want my kids to experience even if it meant they would get automatically accepted into Harvard. He heard the screams and anguish of his classmates. He tried to escape and flee but luckily a janitor told him to turn back and hide. He hid with other students in a closet like sitting ducks hoping not to get slaughtered. He was texting with his little sister hoping she didn't get killed either.
Then to be strong enough to lead a youth movement against gun violence is remarkable.

He certainly didn't do it for a hook.

All of this is true. I feel for all of those kids. But it has nothing to do about his qualifications to attend an elite university. Our country is bizarre. An elite education, with the best professors, the best labs and libraries and the most intellectual peers (all subsidized by both the US government and by US philanthropy), should be reserved for those who are most academically able to use this opportunity to better our country. We fritter away those extremely limited spots trying to make social policy, and by "enhancing diversity" to bring in a large number of international students. Are we better off helping kids from all backgrounds attend college? Yes, but not at our top institutions. Meanwhile, we push more able kids down the food chain in a weird mismatch of talent and resources.

Oklrges don’t enroll international students for diversity. International students that end up here are exceptional students and our failing educational system dies noy support American children enough to be competitive.

[Anonymous]

Colleges*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With Hogg and the Islamic south Asian kid who wrote blm 100 times for his Stanford essay, I can see middle school parents start to get their kids starting social justice clubs and groups by the thousands across the country.

It’s a great hook.

I found find your comment so distasteful. What this kid and his classmates went through I wouldn't ever want my kids to experience even if it meant they would get automatically accepted into Harvard. He heard the screams and anguish of his classmates. He tried to escape and flee but luckily a janitor told him to turn back and hide. He hid with other students in a closet like sitting ducks hoping not to get slaughtered. He was texting with his little sister hoping she didn't get killed either.
Then to be strong enough to lead a youth movement against gun violence is remarkable.

He certainly didn't do it for a hook.

All of this is true. I feel for all of those kids. But it has nothing to do about his qualifications to attend an elite university. Our country is bizarre. An elite education, with the best professors, the best labs and libraries and the most intellectual peers (all subsidized by both the US government and by US philanthropy), should be reserved for those who are most academically able to use this opportunity to better our country. We fritter away those extremely limited spots trying to make social policy, and by "enhancing diversity" to bring in a large number of international students. Are we better off helping kids from all backgrounds attend college? Yes, but not at our top institutions. Meanwhile, we push more able kids down the food chain in a weird mismatch of talent and resources.

Clue alert - bright young people need to learn to interact intellectually with a diverse group of people to be effective world leaders and workers. That includes people of other races, cultures, classes and viewpoints. This is the kind of education that we hope for and desire greatly for our children. This broadens their mind greatly, not just going to school with American students with good standardized test scores (though I’m pretty sure that everyone at the top schools has excellent test scores anyway).
Nothing is being frittered away.
Maybe you should take some of those free Ivy League online college courses, broaden your mind some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but I’m not a fan of him taking a spot from a kid who deserves it.

How do you define a "deserving" kid? Jared Kushner went there, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has become a parody of itself. For shame.

No. This thread is a parody. Clueless and simultaneously envious parents who are obsessed with grades and rank instead of quality of the students they are raising. Good for Hogg and good for Harvard.

Parents cluelessly push their kids to be robotic students. AP scholar! National Merit! If you over study to achieve those things, leaving no time for other endeavors, it wasn’t worth doing.

So you recommend Tiger Moms should train their average IQ kids to exploit local tragedies instead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but I’m not a fan of him taking a spot from a kid who deserves it.

Harvard isn't interested in your definition of who deserves to go there. It's weird that people are so critical of their admission policies, yet still want their kid to go to school there. Your fellow students ARE the experience of attending g a university, so if you hate the admission policies, you should probably dislike the school enough not to want to attend.

Not pp here -- what makes you think I want my kid to attend Harvard? It has become a parody of itself.

As someone who has read Mr. Hogg's tweets and seen his interviews, it is clear that Harvard values ideological purity and zeal over critical thinking and communication skills.

Dude, he's a high school kid -- one who has accomplished more already than you have in your entire life. Find me a HS kid with more on the ball, who is better poised to be a future leader. I'll wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With Hogg and the Islamic south Asian kid who wrote blm 100 times for his Stanford essay, I can see middle school parents start to get their kids starting social justice clubs and groups by the thousands across the country.

It’s a great hook.

I found find your comment so distasteful. What this kid and his classmates went through I wouldn't ever want my kids to experience even if it meant they would get automatically accepted into Harvard. He heard the screams and anguish of his classmates. He tried to escape and flee but luckily a janitor told him to turn back and hide. He hid with other students in a closet like sitting ducks hoping not to get slaughtered. He was texting with his little sister hoping she didn't get killed either.
Then to be strong enough to lead a youth movement against gun violence is remarkable.

He certainly didn't do it for a hook.

All of this is true. I feel for all of those kids. But it has nothing to do about his qualifications to attend an elite university. Our country is bizarre. An elite education, with the best professors, the best labs and libraries and the most intellectual peers (all subsidized by both the US government and by US philanthropy), should be reserved for those who are most academically able to use this opportunity to better our country. We fritter away those extremely limited spots trying to make social policy, and by "enhancing diversity" to bring in a large number of international students. Are we better off helping kids from all backgrounds attend college? Yes, but not at our top institutions. Meanwhile, we push more able kids down the food chain in a weird mismatch of talent and resources.

I get what you are saying but isn’t Parkland a top school? The hardest part of Harvard is getting in. Anyone from a good HS, regardless of class rank, is prepared for Harvard and any other top school.

I think harvard did the right thing .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but I’m not a fan of him taking a spot from a kid who deserves it.

Harvard isn't interested in your definition of who deserves to go there. It's weird that people are so critical of their admission policies, yet still want their kid to go to school there. Your fellow students ARE the experience of attending g a university, so if you hate the admission policies, you should probably dislike the school enough not to want to attend.

Not pp here -- what makes you think I want my kid to attend Harvard? It has become a parody of itself.

As someone who has read Mr. Hogg's tweets and seen his interviews, it is clear that Harvard values ideological purity and zeal over critical thinking and communication skills.

But you missed the other even more important quality - he has courage. Courage to speak up, courage to stand up and demand change. What is your kid doing with his critical thinking and communication skills?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's obvious that you people objecting to his admission are so very clueless about what super-elite colleges are seeking.

I mean, totally clueless.

He is EXACTLY what they are looking for.

+1. They want to make world leaders. Not cater to geniuses

Let them do that on their own dime. Don't suck on the tax payer for grants then. In thirty years, the brand name of Harvard is going to be shit unless they stop catering to leftist SJW's. I can't wait till their funding gets pulled.
Leftist, unpatriotic, racist hypocrites. I'm so glad their endowment is being taxed. I hope the tax rate gets jacked up to the top marginal income tax rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's obvious that you people objecting to his admission are so very clueless about what super-elite colleges are seeking.

I mean, totally clueless.

He is EXACTLY what they are looking for.

+1. They want to make world leaders. Not cater to geniuses

Let them do that on their own dime. Don't suck on the tax payer for grants then. In thirty years, the brand name of Harvard is going to be shit unless they stop catering to leftist SJW's. I can't wait till their funding gets pulled.
Leftist, unpatriotic, racist hypocrites. I'm so glad their endowment is being taxed. I hope the tax rate gets jacked up to the top marginal income tax rate.

You have to do better than that copy-and-paste poo. Very weak.