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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is it teaching our kids? About "merit", hard work, financial inequality, value? Parents I know are gnashing their teeth over the blatant games played by colleges who seemingly hold all the power. But can't we vote with our feet? Select colleges outside the US system that are[b] more fair [/b](Canada, UK, Ireland, Scotland, etc.) or pick honors colleges in less competitive US colleges that will provide our kids with scholarships and better opportunities. Our public state schools (at least mine) has good intentions but feels broken as well.

What is it all for?

The parents telling me you need to "prune your child since middle school for a cohesive college narrative" and hire consultants to make you marketable, make me feel so sad and hopeless.[/quote]

your assumption is that US admissions is not fair anymore. which presumes that it was, at one time, fair.

The top schools were for privileged white men for a long time. JFK's essay etc. Then for the well off white children of the UMC in the 80s and 90s. No one from my midwestern high school had ever - ever! - applied to HYP when I was there, including me. Was not on the radar.

Then the world got flat, marketing expanded, the internet happened, SAT prep went national, questbridge and posse happened. And it got a lot harder for the people for whom the top 10% of the class walked right into Dartmouth.

That doesn't mean it got less fair. It just got harder for you - and so it feels less fair.

Opt out. Really. You'll survive without the ivy league and the Ivy League will certainly survive without you. [/quote]

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