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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]However, I don't think the solution is just to send kids who never had to write a research paper to an Ivy.[/quote]

Why not?  With the grade inflation at the Ivies these days, it doesn't really matter.  Once you get in, you're entitled to a gentleman's B+.
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I'm sorry, but perhaps you are thinking of Harvard in the 1950s, or you are just wrong. My kid is at an Ivy and there's no entitlement to a gentleman's B+ anymore. Some schools have reputations for being easier (hello, Harvard). But you will still flail if you can't write a research paper. [/quote]

(1)  YOUR KID GOT IN TO AN IVY!!!  I'M SOOO IMPRESSED!  (This was the point of your post, I assume.)

(2)  If you seriously think top performing kids from low performing areas "can't write a research paper," you need to get your head out of your hind region.  "Writing a research paper" is not the same as invention cold-fusion, even if your perfect little snowflake insists it is and that you should send more money immediately because your LO has it SOOOOO hard.  Also, it's not West Point.

(3)  I see the worst writing from Ivy-leage grads.  Absolutely dreadful.  It doesn't mean I don't also see excellent writing from other Ivy-league grads--I do.  But if they're using some writing litmus test in the Ivies, then they need to change the formula.  [/quote]

Dear poster:

You are an idiot. You clearly don't have ANY understanding about the workload at a selective college, including Ivies. This doesn't disqualify you from having a happy successful life, but it TOTALLY DISQUALIFIES YOU from commenting on what it takes to succeed at a selective college. You clearly have NO CLUE. Which makes your bullying, insulting, pitiable insults even more OBNOXIOUS, NASTY AND STUPID. (Sorry for the caps, but you seem to think caps are necessary for communication, so I'm trying to help you out here.) I have a niece who pulled down straight As in a bad highschool in WVA, who never wrote a research paper.

If it helps, think Stanford, MIT, or top SLACs instead. Clearly you find the word "Ivy" very threatening, which says a lot about you, and distracts you from your ability to listen to people who actually know what they're talking about.

That's all I have to say to you, because you are an ignorant blowhard who blathers on about things you don't understand. Are you the Stony Brook bully by any chance?  Buh bye![/quote]

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long, long ime. No defensivness about the "quality" of Ivy admits to see here. Move along, people, move along. [/quote]

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