For those who ever wondered if putting a Repubican/right-wing extracurricular was a good idea...don't

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Anonymous wrote:Love that the OPs recommendation is you need to omit your kids Cato credential because an unhinged 23 year old might ding his application because of it.

That's the problem...the unhinged admission's officer is the one who decides if your kid is admitted.

We're big on unconscious racism, implicit bias, etc. There are entire DEI industries set up around those theories.

Now here, it seems plausible, does it not, that the explicit bias of an admssion's officer might negatively impact the application?

That’s not a “problem.” It is perfectly acceptable to reject someone for associating with right-wing ideology.

Sincere question - was it also acceptable to reject someone from admission for supporting McCain in 2008 or Romney in 2012?

Explain how that is the same thing to me like I am 5.

PP said “it is perfectly acceptable to reject someone for associating with right-wing ideology”. I am trying to test the scope of that assertion with historical elections.

It isn’t a good faith test. (Acting in bad faith is typical behavior for right wingers so I guess that fits).

Let me rephrase: How are McCain and/or Romney like Trump/MAGA? For one thing, Romney is on record many times in opposition to Trump on both style and substance.

So, again, make this analogy make sense. Because I dispute the premise of the question.

McCain supported all the wars Bush supported and then added even more. He selected a Bircher/religious right nutjob as his running mate. It was absolutely not socially acceptable to support McCain in 2008. You are huffing fumes or very young if you think so.

But he wasn't a lying convicted felon, rapist cult leader who attacked the peaceful transfer of power, a basic tenet of our democracy, by inciting an insurrection.

This time is DIFFERENT.
We're facing the most EXTREME Republican nominee EVER.
This is the MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIMES.

You libs are like a broken record every four years.

No, this time isn't different. We faced the same issues in 2016 and 2020 with the Republican nominee.

As usual, your accusation is a projection, anyway. Have you SEEN how Republicans characterize Democrats through the decades?

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If you start with the premise that many admissions officers loathe Trump and anyone who supports or votes for him so passionately, it makes sense that they won't be able to filter out that hatred and anger when they see someone aligned with conservatives.

Why would you ever risk putting down an extra curricular that a reader can very well use against you?

Do colleges instruct their admissions staff to leave their personal political beliefs behind when looking at essays and extra curriculars?

Why risk exposing your political ideology to someone in a decision-making capacity who hates you?

The safe route is to stay in the closet.

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there is nothing "conservative" about Trump

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The persecution complex and paranoia by right-wing nut jobs never ceases to amaze me.

But, yes, if you indoctrinate your child into extremely conservative ideologies, they will be wildly out of step with mainstream thinking in this country. If they take extreme positions they might be shocked the first time they encounter opposition and discover they lack the ability to defend them. They WILL be judged and it can hold them back from scholastic and professional opportunities.

The same is true for extremists on the left. However, they're generally not running around whining about how people are rejecting them for their ridiculous viewpoints.

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Anonymous wrote:Just lie and say you believe men give birth, Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth, more gay porn in kindergarten, and you support boys dominating girls in sports. You’ll walk in anywhere.

The fact you (and my Fox News watching parents) this is what liberals think is a perfect encapsulation of how broken things are. The media you consume is lying to you.

I’ve seen it all supported by liberals, not through Fox. Nice try. And if you think CNN, WaPo, CBS etc. are honest you are high.

Lie. Why must you keep lying?

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Anonymous wrote:The persecution complex and paranoia by right-wing nut jobs never ceases to amaze me.

But, yes, if you indoctrinate your child into extremely conservative ideologies, they will be wildly out of step with mainstream thinking in this country. If they take extreme positions they might be shocked the first time they encounter opposition and discover they lack the ability to defend them. They WILL be judged and it can hold them back from scholastic and professional opportunities.

The same is true for extremists on the left. However, they're generally not running around whining about how people are rejecting them for their ridiculous viewpoints.

Because they all found a home on college campuses to spread their brand of crazy.

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https://nypost.com/2024/10/18/media/college-admissions-officer-rails-against-trump-supporters-in-social-media-post-piece-of-s/

College admissions officer accuses Trump supporters of tolerating ‘rape,’ ‘homophobia’ in social post: ‘Piece of s–t’

While not every admission's officer is going to be from a background in the humanities, if you have a child doing a Republican/righ-wing internship, advocacy or leadership position, I would really think twice about putting that down as an EC. Too much to lose and probably very little to gain. Obviously this isn't for every school, but for SLAC's, the Boston schools, Emory, WashU, etc. it does apply.

This is a perfectly valid reason to reject a kid.

It's also problematic for getting a job in the real world. For good reason.

+1. Seen it happen first hand and am ok with it.

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She put it on her private account and someone copied it and published it. Always a risk, but the idea that the people evaluating you will ever be neutral and are not allowed to express opinions in locked down acct is unrealistic.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the only way this works is if the student talks about his conservative beliefs in an essay and explains that they do not support any movement that promotes xenophobia, racism or sexism.

I am left-leaning, and I have plenty of conservative relatives who are decent people who have a horror of Trump and who would never vote for him or anyone like that, ever.

So the applicant really needs to explain that, because the immense majority of college admissions officers are left-leaning and a lot are very young (in their 20s) and to be frank, not very worldly. In our college tour of northeast SLACS and some state unis, we met plenty and my goodness: I was not impressed with any of the younger admissions people. The older person at Williams was excellent, and kept his focus on academics, which I appreciated. The young person at Middlebury spent her time talking about January and how it was practically a free month to have fun.

On a similar note: my son was asked to write about a book that had resonated with him in an essay. He chose Kim, by Rudyard Kipling, the British colonial-era Nobel Prize winner. We love his writing in the family, while being painfully aware of his misogyny and racism. But the story of Kim is wonderful, and it's clear that the author has a profound love and respect for the many peoples of India. My son's first sentence of his essay addressed these issues, and laid out his opinion that one can still enjoy a good yarn even though its author has certain beliefs that are reprehensible. I mean, we wouldn't read any classics at all if we had to cancel all misogynist literature! We outlaw pedophilia, yet still revere ancient Greek philosophers who described pedophilia as a normal social practice of their time. Heck, we even name the fraternity and sorority system after them (I'm sure 99.99% of students in that system don't have a clue about this).

DS got into that college with merit aid, and the acceptance letter noted that the admissions officer had particularly appreciated his essay.

So sometimes... it pays to step *thoughtfully and carefully* outside of the liberal box.

Quit the persecution complex.

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Anonymous wrote:The persecution complex and paranoia by right-wing nut jobs never ceases to amaze me.

But, yes, if you indoctrinate your child into extremely conservative ideologies, they will be wildly out of step with mainstream thinking in this country. If they take extreme positions they might be shocked the first time they encounter opposition and discover they lack the ability to defend them. They WILL be judged and it can hold them back from scholastic and professional opportunities.

The same is true for extremists on the left. However, they're generally not running around whining about how people are rejecting them for their ridiculous viewpoints.

Because they all found a home on college campuses to spread their brand of crazy.

And another thing. Right-wingers are so anti-education. Why are they so desperate to attend these universities they profess to hate in the first place? It's almost as pathetic as demanding normal people validate their deplorable beliefs.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, I think that admission's officers at these types of schools probably look at JD Vance, Ted Cruz, Stefanik, etc. as the type of students who should not be admitted today. To them, they probably think that the school enabled their "rise" and ithat the school is complicit in giving platforms to "abhorrent" people.

Not making that mistake again means filtering out the next generation of right wing thinkers. From their world view, they are doing the world a great service.

None of the people you named is a thinker.

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Anonymous wrote:Just lie and say you believe men give birth, Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth, more gay porn in kindergarten, and you support boys dominating girls in sports. You’ll walk in anywhere.

Republican hysterics at their finest. GFY.

Says the dude in the pussy hat his wife makes him wear.

Oh right. Republicans love to pretend to be all alpha. Maybe if you weren’t such pathetic aholes you wouldn’t be incels. Pussy hats are triggering because you never get any.

Incels? LOL! Loosen the twat top and you’ll get more oxygen to your brain.

Oh no. Incel’s mad that we called him an incel.

Sorry no one wants to f you.

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Anonymous wrote:Just lie and say you believe men give birth, Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth, more gay porn in kindergarten, and you support boys dominating girls in sports. You’ll walk in anywhere.

The fact you (and my Fox News watching parents) this is what liberals think is a perfect encapsulation of how broken things are. The media you consume is lying to you.

I’ve seen it all supported by liberals, not through Fox. Nice try. And if you think CNN, WaPo, CBS etc. are honest you are high.

Lie. Why must you keep lying?

Because that is all they have.

Lies. Gaslighting. Fearmongering.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, I think that admission's officers at these types of schools probably look at JD Vance, Ted Cruz, Stefanik, etc. as the type of students who should not be admitted today. To them, they probably think that the school enabled their "rise" and ithat the school is complicit in giving platforms to "abhorrent" people.

Not making that mistake again means filtering out the next generation of right wing thinkers. From their world view, they are doing the world a great service.

None of the people you named is a thinker.

Yeah - Kamala (failed the bar exam and lied about working at McDonalds) is an intellectual giant when compared with those morons JD Vance (Yale Law grad, wrote NYT bestseller) and Ted Cruz (Harvard Law grad, argued before Supreme Court whom Alan Dershowitz called the most brilliant student he ever taught).

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Anonymous wrote:Just lie and say you believe men give birth, Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth, more gay porn in kindergarten, and you support boys dominating girls in sports. You’ll walk in anywhere.

Republican hysterics at their finest. GFY.

Says the dude in the pussy hat his wife makes him wear.

Oh right. Republicans love to pretend to be all alpha. Maybe if you weren’t such pathetic aholes you wouldn’t be incels. Pussy hats are triggering because you never get any.

Incels? LOL! Loosen the twat top and you’ll get more oxygen to your brain.

Oh no. Incel’s mad that we called him an incel.

Sorry no one wants to f you.

LOL. The only woman you got came in a box with a volleyball pump!