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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She has a point.

Most boys admitted to STA are hooked. Unhooked boys have to be better to overcome the hooks most other boys have. That’s the way it works and everyone, including you, knows it.

So some of the boys in your “everyone” got in on merit but most did not. How that worked for the PP’s son? I don’t know.

I make no apologies for that PP but you and by extension STA aren’t coming off very well in this little spat. [/quote]

Who says I have kids that go to STA?  I’ve never commented on what does or doesn’t happen at STA. It was a comment on her assumption that because her kid didn’t get in that decisions couldn’t have been based on merit. And my point was simply that she’s going to be whining in 6 years when she discovers college admissions works the same way.

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If you don’t have a kid who attends makes your hot-headed comments even more bizarre. To be that unhinged and that invested when you don’t know or have a relationship with the school. You have no credibility and it doesn’t concern you. [/quote]

well, I suppose PP doesn't have a relationship with the school now, either, does she? So she has no credibility either.

and I didn't say whether I did or did not have kids that go to STA. Whether I do or not isn't relevant to the point I was making.[/quote]

PP did attempt to get in the school so they know that process. You are reactive and your posts are dramatic and low level with your snarky insults. On top of that, you reduced merit to a joke. 
You could never get in that school with your behavior and you admitted that you do not have children who attend in is not in line with your bizarre reactions. 
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PP only knows the result of the process - a rejection. That doesn't mean she knows the process or the decision-making criteria. And she's the one, who in a fit of entitled pique, proclaimed that if her kid didn't get in, it couldn't possibly be based on merit.

I am being reactive, though, so you've got me there. I'll accept snarky, too, because that and derision is all the PP deserves at this point. Accept that your kid didn't get in, don't try to explain why and certainly don't have your explanation belittle the kids who did get in.

if you're a parent at STA, you do realize, I hope, that when PP says admissions isn't based on merit (thereby implying admits don't have it), she's talking about YOUR kid.[/quote]

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