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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Your child has won an intellectual/cultural lottery, Congratulations."

While I agree with much the teacher wrote, THIS IS NOT TRUE, and I don't think she meant luck was involved in getting into Columbia.

There was no lottery about it.  Columbia WANTS your daughter.  They chose her over people with better and worse stats, ECs, essays and recs.

There is something in her application that stood out, showed initiative or indicated future greatness.

They have spent a huge amount of effort figuring out how to find what they WANT in students and in a class.

You don't have to understand it, just know it was NOT AN ACCIDENT.

I'm not talking about putting extreme faith in experts or "Ivies", I'm saying that there is skill involved in human resources and college ad coms.

You need to make sure your DD understands this as well.  Of course, you have to get this across without swelling her head, no easy task.

Hello :  I am the teacher who used the noun 'lottery'. for a student who is selected to benefit from the vast array of intellectual and cultural opportunities at Columbia. Of course, it is no accident that this high school student was selected out of 60,500 applicants to the College and SEAS. Columbia clearly wants her. That is a nice position to be in, and she earned her place.

I have many students who would love to get into one of these select schools. The competition is just so great to get in. Outstanding students from all over the world are beating on the doors to try to get in a limited entering class of 1390 students.  I myself as a teacher and advisor do not even have the answers as to who is accepted from a such large number of very qualified candidates. Her acceptance is a feather in her cap based on her achievements.

I hope that the parents will contact Columbia staff and speak to the relevant people and possibly the 'Parents at Columbia' website to get any and all questions answered.

I wish that many of my own wonderfully qualified, outstanding students could be accepted to such places, try as hard as I can to help them get in.

Good luck[/quote][/quote]

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