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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To console your daughter...has she visited Amherst?

We did not like it. While the town look charming/fun, the campus is not really separate (my DD preferred Mount Holyoke, in that you could have quiet and peace to study OR take the shuttle 20 minutes to the fun/college town of Amherst). We found our tour guide (okay, that is one person but...) to be snobby/arrogant. For example, she said her favorite event on campus is when they have [b]skits that MAKE FUN of the essays of kids who did not get in[/b]. I kid you not, that is what she said was her favorite "tradition" on campus. That was all we needed to hear....[/quote]

Sorry you had a poor tour guide. She also explained that event incorrectly - of course they don't make fun of essays of kids who didn't get admitted. The skits are based on the essays of the admitted students and done for the incoming freshman as a bonding experience. They don't identify whose essay it's based on.[/quote]

Sounds potentially hilarious to me, provided they don’t pick the 50% of essays where the kid lost his grandmother or she overcame some obstacle and then founded the future doctors club at her HS. [/quote]

DP. Unless the tradition has fundamentally changed, it's not really about making fun of specific essays (and especially not essays of kids who weren't admitted), it's more making fun of essay cliches. So there might be a skit where the whole essay is nothing but famous quotes that aren't even on the same theme and are funny when read together. Or an essay about how your community service commitment to handknitting sweaters for fish fundamentally changed your life. Or how you overcame the great tragedy of a hangnail. Things that are so hyperbolic that it's clearly not targeting anyone in particular, but most people will recognize a smidge of something in their own essays, so everyone's kind of laughing at themselves and recognizing that we all can be kind of dorky at times so let's cut ourselves some slack.[/quote]

Good luck convincing this crowd. God forbid we laugh at ourselves. [/quote]

The anecdote above is not about laughing at ourselves; it is about laughing at other people - people who were not admitted to the school that you attend.[/quote]

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