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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d wager these schools could triple in size and make no dent in the anger. The problem is they are too small to make a dent from a national perspective. They aren’t going to magically turn into UCLA. I believe a lot of this anger reflects the diminishment of our state school system, which is big enough to actually make a difference but has been starved for resources. And now these small schools are somehow supposed to make it up for everybody.

Imagine if the flagship in each state was tuition free. Now that would move the needle.

Re: government funding. That’s for research that is intended to cure cancer and the like. Do we not want to cure cancer anymore?

My child is there now - no hooks, overrepresented ethnicity, overrepresented area, a lot of national recognition in one subject (which included something the school wanted). Became obsessed with subject in 8th grade. She got LUCKY — the school happened to want that skill that year. It isn’t a merit game, and the misunderstanding that it is creates incredible amounts of resentment.

And yes — she is a rarity where we live. The legacy parent whose child didn’t get in is right - Yale and Princeton have recently not given any nods to standard legacies at all from areas like ours and backgrounds like ours. Kids like ours have been pushed aside in the quest for diversity of all types. And our kids will be completely fine regardless.

There was and is nothing wrong or worse about the kids who don’t get in. The more we really get that, the better we will all feel about all of this. I would caution applicants that if you are from an overrepresented area, you have little shot unless you offer something specific the school wants.

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The continued preference for legacies (including --to your point -- in the DMV area) is among the factors that many find extremely frustrating. Without a doubt, this is what one can see in the admission outcomes in the last few years. Legacies with lower stats etc preferred over non-leagcies. How can this be seen as fair? How is this not frustrating?[/quote]

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