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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I just say that this thread has reached 8 pages and nobody's trashed anybody else's school yet (I think -- I skimmed some pages)?   Plus somebody's posted some actually helpful links on college admissions on another thread on this forum, instead of making it up and posting it as gospel.  I'm amazed!

I'm hoping that all those horrid people who talk about colleges on the private school forum don't find this new college forum.  Way to go, friends!  [/quote]

Let me echo the sentiment of this poster, and suggest that the posters squabbling about Smith please take the fight elsewhere and not pollute this very useful communication.[/quote]

Actually, you're quoting my post about the 8 pages where nobody's trashing anybody else's school!

I'm sorry this other post is disillusioned, but I'm concerned that she's spreading some exaggerations.  There may be a nugget of truth, but show me the college faculty that doesn't have its full measure of discontents.  (And ouch, now the rest of Smith's faculty can read here what her faculty friends have been telling her confidentially?)

I wasn't in Sessions, I was in Lamont.  I've been back within the last five years and didn't see what she saw, and in particular I didn't see any dental dams.  Maybe I wasn't looking for them, but still....  Also, the NY Times article about recruiting in the Middle East just reflects what a lot of Ivies are already doing.  You can read about it in Daniel Goldin's Price of Admission -- a lot of schools are upping their diversity statistics by recruiting rich Middle Easterners who can pay full freight.  Pretty cynical, I admit, and I can understand why nobody mentions it in the NY Times article.  I still don't get, and it doesn't say anywhere in the NY Times article you linked to, how recruiting 20-30 women who speak Arabic as a first language, among an entry class of 700-so women, would boost Smith's reading and essay SAT scores.

The whole thing just doesn't hold together.  So yes, let's end this discussion. [/quote]

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