Girl accepted by 39 schools and counting

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what is to be celebrated. A kid got greedy and decided to apply to a bunch of schools she will never attend. And why aren't the names of the schools disclosed. Anyone can do this...why write about something that means absolutely nothing except the fact that she wasted a lot of people's time and potentially hurt someones chances of being accepted to one of those schools. Heck, I was feeling guilty because my son applied to 7 schools, got accepted to all 7, and sat on it for a while before he withdrew his applications from the 6 he would not attend.

G-D-it, read the freaking thread people. You are all making a-holes of yourselves. This one with a humblebrag thrown in for good measure!

Why don't you tone down your anger, and perhaps summarize the thread. I don't have time to read all four pages, and if I read the article, I am entitled to share my opinion! And I don't consider being accepted to 7 schools a humble brag. Now if I go on to share that two of them were top 20, then, yes, you can accuse me of that. Have a pleasant day.

Yes, you are entitled to share your opinion.

As am I.

And my opinion is you are blathering about something you know nothing about, when that could have been solved by less time reading than you spent typing.

Are you proud of that, exactly? You can try this: "Hey you know I was wrong, sorry...". It's very powerful.

Um, I beg to differ. I read the thread. There are many opinions. Mine is that this is an overblown article. Perhaps it is because it is a minority? I don't know, but it's really not a big deal.

PP, you started out of the gate by diminishing the child's accomplishments, and later attributed the attention to her race (oh, and managed to get in a humble brag about your own progeny) while doubling down on disparaging her achievements. How is this not racist?

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Anonymous wrote:It's really silly to apply to that many schools and it's really racist of the news media to always "make a story" out of AA's getting into college.

I don't think many people on this thread, and DCUM generally, understand the Black Common App.

For $35 dollars a student self-reports their transcript and test scores. Their high school counselor has to upload the official ones before the application is considered complete. This is not placing an undue burden on the student or the counselor.

Applicants indicate their top 4 colleges from those in the program, but any of the 53 participating colleges can download your information and make you an offer of admission/scholarships. So this student wasn't actually "applying" to many of the schools where she was offered admissions and scholarships.

The most elite HBCUs, such as Spelman and Morehouse do not use the Black Common App, you would need to use the Common App for those.

https://commonblackcollegeapp.com/faqs/
Member colleges https://commonblackcollegeapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ele2_broch_19.pdf

The article says she researched and selected the schools she applied to, using both the Common Black App and the Common App.