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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course the WSJ picked a white girl from Texas for this so they could make it seem like the reason why she didn’t get in was because of “those” kids. [/quote]

Yet a basically meh one in comparison to many HYPSM applicants. She is not a truly outstanding applicant when I think of the ones admitted in my DC's senior class this year, [b]including published science research[/b], running a relief operation for essential workers in COVID, etc. And for a kid focused on an Ivy, it's mystifying at why she wrote about her B grades and depression in her essay. College Confidential and nearly every college essay web site wave students off that topic, including "successful" stories of a student not getting a learning diagnosis until middle school/early high school and being able to turn around their learning trajectory after better understanding their strengths and weaknesses. [/quote]

I think the girl's 300 plays she played in and/or "directed" goes to the issue of the veracity of her grandiose claim. PP's claim of HS classmate kids who are already published research scientists just takes it to another level.  It's like forcing a 10 year old boy to tag along on a trek to the Himalayas to become the youngest ever.   It's on the level of Greta Thunberg.  It's cringey. [/quote]

A close friend of mine has a kid who has a published research paper. It was 95% kid driven. It happens.

And did you call Greta Thunberg “cringey”? 
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It's cringey, as in the girl's parents are pulling all the strings behind the scene.  It sounds abusive. When a snotty-nosed HS kid becomes a published research scientist, it $ounds $hady.  [/quote]

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