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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three paragraphs summarily explain her rejections.  Twenty years ago, she wouldn't have applied to these top-tier colleges and accumulated a hoard of rejections.  Twenty years ago, she would have been happy to matriculate at UT or ASU.

1.  Ms. Younger wrote in the applications about her history of depression and anxiety to explain the two B’s she earned during her sophomore year.

2.  Ms. Younger’s father attended the University of Oklahoma and her mother went to Montclair State University in New Jersey. She has no connection to the faculty or alumni at any elite school, nor did she hire a test-preparation coach or a private college counselor.

3.  Her school serves McKinney, Texas, a fast-growing suburb 30 miles outside of Dallas. In a given year, about half of the school’s graduates enroll at four-year colleges; most attend public universities in Texas, Dr. Cranmore said. He recalls two McKinney graduates enrolling at Yale and one at Princeton over the past decade.[/quote]

So she should have known her place. Got it. [/quote]

Oh, grow up. Community theatre, school accounting club, a [b]meaningless part time job [/b]and stats that were extremely common in their applicant pools was never going to get her into an Ivy. Delusional.[/quote]

All that is theoretically supposed to matter is what you do in the context of your high school. 99% high schoolers have no access to “internships” or research experience.

The bolded is interesting. I’m not saying this is her situation, but a lot of kids that have to work a job in high school do not have time to do what you consider meaningful extracurriculars.[/quote]

I said that because there have been SO many wealthy parents crying on DCUM this month that there’s NO WAY Elite School X shouldn’t have taken their precious snowflake, who even played varsity sports (like thousands and thousands of other applicants), was OMG an EAGLE SCOUT and even worked at Smoothie King! No, it must be because their snowflake’s Rightful Place was taken by a nonwhite applicant and it’s not faaaaaaair. :roll: [/quote]

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