Best advice for students of average-above average intelligence to get into elite schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:08:43 , PP is not an idiot. One only has to have 25% of minority genes to be able to check that box on the college application. Every little added hook helps.

Um, everyone knows there's no such thing as race "genes" right? I know that's not what this thread is about, but had to dispel that ridiculousness...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:08:43 , PP is not an idiot. One only has to have 25% of minority genes to be able to check that box on the college application. Every little added hook helps.

Um, everyone knows there's no such thing as race "genes" right? I know that's not what this thread is about, but had to dispel that ridiculousness...

Are you claiming that one's race is not genetic?

wat

[Anonymous]

One’s physical features are genetic (phenotype). Making social groupings out of selected constellations of those features is not genetic.

[Anonymous]

I agree with PPs who say parent the child you have & encourage a hobby. Whatever the child does, s/he should go all in. Make sure service credit aligns with the hobby: skateboarding, business, fashion, whatever.

Ideally, DC should have a strong, coherent story about who s/he is and why s/he is doing what s/he is doing.

[Anonymous]

Colleges want pointy kids to make a well-rounded class.

No more well-rounded students. They're not wanted.

[Anonymous]

I don't know if this has been addressed, but if I had a slightly above average kid, I would worry that h/she wouldn't do well at a really academically rigorous/"elite" school. I wouldn't want to set them up to fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One’s physical features are genetic (phenotype). Making social groupings out of selected constellations of those features is not genetic.

Race shows up on DNA tests, of course it's genetic, but you're probably one of those people who thinks that gender is just a social construct as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One’s physical features are genetic (phenotype). Making social groupings out of selected constellations of those features is not genetic.

Race shows up on DNA tests, of course it's genetic, but you're probably one of those people who thinks that gender is just a social construct as well.

DP, no "race" per se does not show up on DNA tests. DNA tests identify regions of the world in which your ancestors lived. We then interpret them into the social categories of race.

[Anonymous]

If you have an 8th grader who is starting HS in the fall and is average/above average IQ, good work ethic, certainly not likely to score in the very top for SATs without major prep work or tutor.... what advice would you give them for their high school career to stand out and have the best opportunity to attend a highly ranked college or university?

If you have a relative with wealth ... make a large donation to the elite college of your choice following engagement with their endowment management team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this has been addressed, but if I had a slightly above average kid, I would worry that h/she wouldn't do well at a really academically rigorous/"elite" school. I wouldn't want to set them up to fail.

Elite schools are not synonymous with academically rigorous school. MIT, Caltech, sure but Harvard, Yale or Princeton, not really.

[Anonymous]

If you are really an above-average student , it won’t be a problem for you to get into these elite schools. You know, you don’t even need dissertation writing services to enter there but if you want to get the university, you’d better save this link

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this has been addressed, but if I had a slightly above average kid, I would worry that h/she wouldn't do well at a really academically rigorous/"elite" school. I wouldn't want to set them up to fail.

Elite schools are not synonymous with academically rigorous school. MIT, Caltech, sure but Harvard, Yale or Princeton, not really.

And you know this how?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
08:43 , PP is not an idiot. One only has to have 25% of minority genes to be able to check that box on the college application. Every little added hook helps.


Um, everyone knows there's no such thing as race "genes" right? I know that's not what this thread is about, but had to dispel that ridiculousness...

Are you claiming that one's race is not genetic?

wat

Yes, it’s sociopolitical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One’s physical features are genetic (phenotype). Making social groupings out of selected constellations of those features is not genetic.

Race shows up on DNA tests, of course it's genetic, but you're probably one of those people who thinks that gender is just a social construct as well.

No, I'm a genetics researcher and the PP was 100% correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this has been addressed, but if I had a slightly above average kid, I would worry that h/she wouldn't do well at a really academically rigorous/"elite" school. I wouldn't want to set them up to fail.

Elite schools are not synonymous with academically rigorous school. MIT, Caltech, sure but Harvard, Yale or Princeton, not really.

And you know this how?

Because they worship at the altar of almighty STEM. They think everything else is not academically rigorous even though they couldn’t write their way out of a paper bag.