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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The big elephant in the room: how in the world is this fair?

Why should someone who can play sports or has a parent attending the college get up to a 15x boost to acceptance rate (PRINCETON) AND lower GPA?

I see all the attacks on URM and this is very much the same phenomenon, if not more drastic.

Sickening that so many well-qualified students- who demonstrate ability in more meaningful ways- are getting cut out from great schools over these mediocre ones. [/quote]

This is ridiculous. Have you not learned that the world isn't fair?? Please - look around at the world as a whole and tell me where you see 'fairness'.
What is fair about being born in say, an Indian slum. How about a Rohingya in Burma? An inner city Washington DC kid - what kind of public school education is that kid getting? Is any of that fair?

Anyway. Even if everything was 'fair' your kid still wouldn't be getting in because there are just too many of your kind of kid to go around. Your kid is not special and neither is mine - get over it. Your kid will get a good education somewhere . There are a lot of things that are 'sickening' but this is not one of them.

I say this as the parent of a kid with high test scores and grades who is applying to college this year - get over yourself.[/quote]

You sound like an awful person with a severe case of a holier-than-thou attitude. Why don't you get over yourself instead of thinking that patterns like this are excusable? [/quote]

I guess it's just a matter of perspective, but to me, the PP seems like a thoughtful, caring and sensible person, while you seem ill-informed and entitled.  What makes you think your kid deserves a spot at a top school?  Just because they have high stats?  As PP has said, so do tens of thousands of other kids, many of whom are going to look pretty interchangeable to admissions officers, and almost all of whom will end up with acceptances at very good schools.  Also, you've clearly never been around kids who play a sport at a high level, and have no idea about the sacrifices involved.[/quote]

Not the PP but I had a kid who made all the sacrifices to play a sport at a high level so I understand.  Where we differ though is I'm just happy he chose to do so because he loved it.  For me it would have been a real concern for him to attend a school as part of the bottom 1/3 - 1/2 because the sport got him in.  And then even struggling more due to the college athletic time requirements.  College is a time to stretch your wings and grow academically.  Find out all the other things you may be interested in.  The athlete who gets the boost [b]and [/b] have the same high stats as his peers has a shot at success.  The number of kids that have to drop out of college sports or transfer is the ugly story of feeling a failure.  I think these kids especially in the helmet sports get used and why that is celebrated is nothing I ever will understand.   [/quote]

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