TMZ reporting Parkland leader David Hogg just got into Harvard

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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?

F*cking scumbag.

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Scummy opportunist

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I would bet Harvard admissions had no idea he had already exposed his awful SAT via reddit. There's just no way they could have known his SAT was public knowledge during their ongoing affirmative action lawsuit. They figured they could accept him under cloak of secrecy, like Jared Kushner and every other Z-list dummy.

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Anonymous wrote:I would bet Harvard admissions had no idea he had already exposed his awful SAT via reddit. There's just no way they could have known his SAT was public knowledge during their ongoing affirmative action lawsuit. They figured they could accept him under cloak of secrecy, like Jared Kushner and every other Z-list dummy.

First of all, his SAT was at the 85th %ile, hardly "awful" unless you consider the vast majority of students to have awful scores.

Secondly, the affirmative action suit has nothing to do with whether Harvard has the right to prioritize accomplishments, such as successfully bringing a political issue to the national stage, over SAT scores.

Finally, of course Harvard knew about his SAT scores.

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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.

Top colleges pick kids who they think will benefit the college the most in the future. It's only partly academic.

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Anonymous wrote:I would bet Harvard admissions had no idea he had already exposed his awful SAT via reddit. There's just no way they could have known his SAT was public knowledge during their ongoing affirmative action lawsuit. They figured they could accept him under cloak of secrecy, like Jared Kushner and every other Z-list dummy.

What are you talking about? It helps them in the lawsuit. It shows they use holistic admissions and SAT scores aren't as important as other non-tangible accomplishments.

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Anonymous wrote:I would bet Harvard admissions had no idea he had already exposed his awful SAT via reddit. There's just no way they could have known his SAT was public knowledge during their ongoing affirmative action lawsuit. They figured they could accept him under cloak of secrecy, like Jared Kushner and every other Z-list dummy.

You are clueless. This is the opposite of what they want.

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Anonymous wrote:I would bet Harvard admissions had no idea he had already exposed his awful SAT via reddit. There's just no way they could have known his SAT was public knowledge during their ongoing affirmative action lawsuit. They figured they could accept him under cloak of secrecy, like Jared Kushner and every other Z-list dummy.

You are clueless. This is the opposite of what they want.

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Notice the original poster said he "admitted" his SAT score.

Like admitting something that was shameful.

This site is so skewed, and NOT in a good way.

Any person who could move this country towards any half-way sane gun policy is worthy of the Nobel Prize in my book.

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Anonymous wrote:Notice the original poster said he "admitted" his SAT score.

Like admitting something that was shameful.

This site is so skewed, and NOT in a good way.

Any person who could move this country towards any half-way sane gun policy is worthy of the Nobel Prize in my book.

I think the OP is the repetitious Harvard law suit poster who is upset that Harvard doesn't accept more Asians.

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to the poster who thinks Harvard (as a resource) should be directed to those who will "better our economy"...you are the very person who needs exposure to people who do not put money ahead of all other values.

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I haven't really followed David Hogg and am not equipped to evaluate the quality of his contribution to the student movement against gun violence. If his contribution was substantive, then I agree this would suggest he certainly has something special that should inspire an elite academic institution to take a closer look. But the low (in the realm of high-achieving students) SAT score does give me pause, and I'd be a bit disappointed if this is another example of an elite university prioritizing celebrity over scholarship.

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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

But it's a UNIVERSITY, not a finishing school!

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Or is it just a finishing school?

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He's shown himself to be effective and smart. He'll make Harvard more proud than yet one more anonymous high test scorer.