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Reply to "Joe Weedon wants permission to send his daughter to Walls"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Why do you think she'd be a shoo in for top colleges coming from Eastern? (This is an honest question, not snark). Because the school hasn't sent a kid to yale yet? The daughter herself wouldn't have much to set her apart from 1000 other white kids with an educated family and (one assumes) good grades. [b] Plus, I'm not sure how you write a "I'm the only white kid at this school" application essay without sounding awful[/b], so she'd have to write something about her extracurricular card game lifestyle or grandpa or whatever like everyone else. Or am I missing something--does being a top performer at a not very high performing high school give you a leg up in college admissions?[/quote] Yes, yes it does, more so now that so few schools require SATs. [/quote] I think there's definitely a non-awful way to write that essay. Probably a few. Just needs to be thoughtful and humble. Sounds like a ticket to Harvard to me. [/quote]
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