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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Context: To get a 4.6 at that school, kid likely had to take 16 AP courses and get a full "A" in every one of them through first semester of senior year. (And probably use some GPA-related tricks that Tiger parents daydream about from the time their kids are in diapers.) Only a handful of students in the entire school system can compete with that, and few would even be interested in trying. Anyway, I assume a troll started this thread.
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My kid was like this and did not get into UVa or VT. Also sports and lots of extracurriculars The system is broken. People don't want to hear it, but it's true. [/quote]

And my four white, UMC kids had those kinds of stats and ECs applied to UVA and three were admitted and of the three who applied to VT, two were admitted.  The system is not broken; it is just crazy competitive and thus unpredictable.[/quote]

Lolololol no
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Same results for my white, UMC kids.  Lots and lots of sour grapes on this forum.[/quote]

What would the results have been for black kids?[/quote]

The trick to UVA is applying ED, and having a sob story essay involving "diversity" (no injury topics).  You are welcome. [/quote]

Sad, but true.[/quote]

It’s true of all schools. [b]Every student has to have a sob story or a story about how they overcame an obstacle in life. It’s all very weird. [/b]We sent DS to a British school which is a meritocracy so we don’t have to deal with a broken system[/quote]

+1  I absolutely HATE this.  It's like kids are making sh*t up to appear as a victim who has overcome.  It's pathetic.

You just can't be 'normal'.  When did 'normal' become toxic and a liability?  And, I'm waiting for the rant to this post about what is 'normal' blah, blah, blah, yada yada....in this context--I mean your average kid with just regular life issues that don't have to be made into a mini-novella.  Everyone by the time they are applying to college has likely faced meanness, exclusion, toxicity, rejection (sports, elections), injury, death of a grandparent, etc.  Just 'normal' things based on their age.  But--they have to make these things so 'life-definining' and beating all odds kind of crap.

IT's strange and weird.  You hear of kids lying about their gender identification or race or some sob story just to have an angle.[/quote]

DP.  I see your point and share your disgust, but we chose the opposite tack.  UMC white girl, excellent grades, excellent ECs, jobs, interesting essay - and no sob stories to speak of.  She didn’t make anything up, she simply presented herself as she is - and is now at her top choice, VT.  Adcoms can see right through the made up nonsense.  Just tell your kids to be themselves.  [/quote]

W[b]hat was her essay about if not a sob story?[/quote][/b]

why the snark?  This is the great debate in college admissions today -[b] my DS went to Oxford where at least in his area of study meritocracy[/b] still reigns supreme.  Read any issue of College Confidential.  Our system has thrown PC and wokeism o the extreme.  A lot off smar parents are going Canadian, British or German. google it[/quote]

[b]LOL no[/quote][/b]

LLol NO.  WHAT??  be intelligent[/quote]

The way you know the “major” admits on merit is that it admitted her kid. It’s simple. Anyone who rejected her kid? Broke and woke. [/quote]

THIS x 100.[/quote]

Uh, no, they didn’t say “broke and woke” where are you pulling that from? You are projecting and making the judgments you want to make. That’s actually called “prejudiced”[/quote]

This is what she wrote: “ Our system has thrown PC and wokeism o the extreme.” I don’t think it’s an inaccurate summary to say broke and woke. Or broken and woke for better grammar.

But go ahead and co-opt the word “prejudiced” as well so it loses all meaning. [/quote]

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