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[quote=Anonymous][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]

More medication and harder work and less sleep. The lesson is that you can't afford two Bs [/quote]

There is nothing wrong with two B's and there are non-hooked kids at elite institutions with one or two B's. The issue is she disclosed a mental illness to justify the B's. I don't agree with discriminating against people with mental illnesses but not surprised she didn't get it.[/quote]

A white, none first gen kid from a public school with no history of sending kids to those schools is going to have to be perfect, she got Bs at a random school none of these colleges have dealt with not Bs at Exeter [/quote]

Tell that to DCUM who thinks all you have to do to go to an Ivy is move to an exburban school in the rest of the country and get a high sat, then voila![/quote]

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