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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the biggest problem with her letter is that it is based on a straw man premise.  Simply put, it doesn't sound like she qualified for admission at the elite schools based on her numbers alone. Writing this piece only reinforced that she's not exactly a brilliant mind.[/quote]

Yup. Based on her SATs, she's in the bottom quartile at most elite schools. Further, although most of us suspect she understood the importance of ECs (the swipe at her parents notwithstanding), it looks like she did nothing to beef them up.

Nothing wrong with that, until you start blaming others for your own shortcomings.

Why does it seem like such a whinge? Specifically, she's blaming minorities for taking "her" spot -- but she didn't have a spot in the first place. She knows she can't blame affirmative action outright, so she does it by satire, and she does the satire fairly well. But read between the jokey references to headgear, ha ha, and she's still saying that someone else took "her" spot. [/quote]

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