College Placement Disappointment from Big 3 Grads?

[Anonymous]

Oh. Sort of like Cambridge having different colleges, including King's College and the rest?

[Anonymous]

Answered my own question: http://calhouncollege.org/.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Answered my own question: http://calhouncollege.org/.

Better link! http://www.yaleslavery.org/WhoYaleHonors/calhoun1.html

[Anonymous]

FYI: There's no word "exmission" in Webster's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Answered my own question: http://calhouncollege.org/.

Better link! http://www.yaleslavery.org/WhoYaleHonors/calhoun1.html

Very interesting, thanks! Especially the controversy.

Re "exmissions", I'm not surprised that it's not in Websters. I suppose this is how language evolves, with groups of people making up new words to say what they needed a string of words to say before (sort of like "Top 3"). In some cases it's a good thing, in others (maybe this one) it's not so good....

[Anonymous]

Well, it was a valiant effort. But maybe this thread's just dead.

[Anonymous]

Oh...so you went to Calhoun Community College in Alabama? Yale didn't take women when George Bush attended it. So you're a creepy old man trolling DCUM.

Why does this psychotic, uneducated and evasive imposter post on the private board?

Did your daughter belong to Yale's Calhoun College? As an imposter and pathologic liar you would be ignorant of the college residential system at Yale. What college is your imaginary daughter residing at Yale? Another of your halucinations.

Alabama is the best you could come up with ... you are most definetely from the mid-west somewhere.

[Anonymous]

She's spending far to much time running to her dictionary to qualify to post on this board!

[Anonymous]

FWIW -- someone is very confused here. Yale is not the top-ranked university on anyone's list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why does this psychotic, uneducated and evasive imposter post on the private board? What college is your imaginary daughter residing at Yale? Another of your halucinations.
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Uh oh, here is Mr./Ms. "psychotic" and "hallucinations" again! What about "schizophrenic."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
7. Since we last chatted did Prozac improve your signs and symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia and your hallucinations?

Oh my! It is worse than I thought! You are everywhere!

[Anonymous]

I've been quizzing my non big 3 high school senior for a week on whether she heard from UMD based on this thread. According to her and to college confidential nobody has heard from MD priority applications yet. Do the big 3 get an extra special early notification?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been quizzing my non big 3 high school senior for a week on whether she heard from UMD based on this thread. According to her and to college confidential nobody has heard from MD priority applications yet. Do the big 3 get an extra special early notification?

No, no extra special early notification. But, the college placement directors at the Big 3 and other fancy private schools do have great access to college admissions directors. For many of these seemingly hallucinogenic DCUMers willing to pay 30K for pre-K, they do so with the eye towards the access and power of the college placement directors and staff. Some think it's insane. I think it's being crazy like a fox. Anyway, to answer your question, I think it possible that OP's college applicant was told in an informal way that he/she would not be getting the nod, probably with the idea that they should be putting the eggs in another basket.

[Anonymous]

ADs with good links are talking to colleges constantly throughout the applications process. They make it their business to sell kids to colleges, by championing the kids' applications, explaining away little problems, and generally finding out how the college feels about a given kid's strengths and weaknesses.

We saw this quite clearly when our kid was graduating from a K-6 school and it was time to apply to middle schools. We got some feedback before the acceptances came out. Also, it seemed like each private elementary had it's own special ties with one or another "elite" school, but not with all of them.

I'm sure that's a lot of what some private school parents are paying for. Not sure many public school college counselors can do this, with 300 kids each to manage and maybe not the long ties to certain schools.

[Anonymous]

Loved your post. It certainly puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

Anonymous wrote:I went to public. Top test scores in the state in elementary school, gifted program later (once we had one), top college early decision(whatever the term for a non-Ivy college on the US News Top 5 list for a liberal arts school is), crappy grad school (partial scholarship) but I knocked it out of the park and got a top job in my field. I work very hard every day, just like many people with all sorts of backgrounds do. I did not come from money and borrowed my way through grad school (except for what the scholarship covered).

I was raised that grades and never messing up are the very most important thing in life. Don't get an A? You have to drop out of the school play. Dent Mom's car? Lose your driver's license. Get a C because you can't stand that crabby English teacher? Grounded - totally - no TV, no phone, no nothing - for 6 months. NOT GOOD ENOUGH - MUST TRY HARDER.

But here's the thing: While I was busy trying harder, I never learned to paint, to dance, to laugh, to make real friends. School was always sink or swim, both in grades and socially. There was no such thing as "service learning" or "social learning."

DC#1 is at a private. As a first grader, the painting and other art skills already surpass mine. The interest in music is amazing. The delight in all sorts of things is a wonder. The e-mails I get about what "social unit" is being focused on that week or month seem like good things. Yes, it's an academic school, but it is more. I feel already that DC#1 has more paths open that lead to happiness. I really don't care about exmissions.

I know nothing about modern public schools; I graduated from mine more than 25 years ago. We live in DC. I bought the party line in our neighborhood about not sending the kids to public without checking into it. All I know is that I am very happy with my child's school, that I hope it works out as well for DC#2, and that I never want to teach my kids that all they are is the last grades they got, the last bonuses they made, the school names on their diplomas, or the prestige of the companies for which they work. The gift my children have given me is that I am finally good enough. I have many titles and roles, but my very favorite one is Momma. I hope their very favorite ones are their own names.