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Anonymous wrote:I'm no longer impressed by stories like this.

I am very impressed with stories like this and I hope more URMs are taken into more schools. At least they are not dumb kids like those whose parents give donations.

One thing has nothing to do with the others. And they both are gross, to me.

Anonymous wrote:I see nothing wrong with this. I always tell my daughter having options to choose from is much better than having to take what you can get.

I think she has more options than are necessary at this point.

As far as keeping the money, if she's going to go to grad school plus undergrad, plus living expenses, I'm ok with it. If she's just keeping it like some lottery winnings then I have a problem with it. Scholarships are just that, for scholarly pursuits, not for you to use that money for shopping or things not related to school. That money could help other kids pay for tuition. Yes she earned that money. FOR SCHOOL.

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Anonymous wrote:It's obnoxious. Thousands of kids could do this every year but they don't because they aren't jerks. She forced admissions offices of at least 45 schools to waste their time on her when she had no intention of attending their schools.

Worst offender was last year a black young man with a 32 on his ACT got into Harvard early. He then proceeded to shotgun blast apps out to the entire top 25 regular decision and boast about each and every acceptance on college confidential. When he took heat he claimed "I didn't know what Harvard would give me for financial aid." BS He went to Harvard on a full boat financial aid package

Harvard is an a$$hole college for 55% of students who are a$$holes. Even the guy who was fraudulently writing SATs for wealthy kids, was an Harvard graduate. I am glad that a handful of URM students get into elite schools with not shabby credentials. At least they are better than people like Jared Kushners of the world.

I look at this way - even if some elite colleges take some URMs because they are very bright, they take exponentially more of dumb (mainly White) wealthy kids who pay their way in the college. So I am very happy when URM students are taken into elite colleges - at least they are brainy and hardworking.

Brainy? Those URMs are significantly less brainy than the average accepted student at those colleges. Unfortunately, that’s the price of affirmative action.

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Anonymous wrote:She used, among other things, the Common Black App, which can go to 53 HB colleges. So it's not like she spent $5K and six months on applications. She just got accepted to a ton of schools, which is great news.

She wasn’t spending anything. Poor can apply to as many as they want - for free. Rich can afford it too. Middle class can.... oh nothing.

+1.

Surprise surprise the middle class is starting to vote GOP, while some poors and limo rich call them "racist" for doing so.

Sorry, it's just survival and good parenting.

Anonymous wrote:I'm no longer impressed by stories like this.

I am very impressed with stories like this and I hope more URMs are taken into more schools. At least they are not dumb kids like those whose parents give donations.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's obnoxious. Thousands of kids could do this every year but they don't because they aren't jerks. She forced admissions offices of at least 45 schools to waste their time on her when she had no intention of attending their schools.

Worst offender was last year a black young man with a 32 on his ACT got into Harvard early. He then proceeded to shotgun blast apps out to the entire top 25 regular decision and boast about each and every acceptance on college confidential. When he took heat he claimed "I didn't know what Harvard would give me for financial aid." BS He went to Harvard on a full boat financial aid package

Harvard is an a$$hole college for 55% of students who are a$$holes. Even the guy who was fraudulently writing SATs for wealthy kids, was an Harvard graduate. I am glad that a handful of URM students get into elite schools with not shabby credentials. At least they are better than people like Jared Kushners of the world.

I look at this way - even if some elite colleges take some URMs because they are very bright, they take exponentially more of dumb (mainly White) wealthy kids who pay their way in the college. So I am very happy when URM students are taken into elite colleges - at least they are brainy and hardworking.

So she applied to really easy schools? Nothing to brag about!

Plus she applied for free!

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Anonymous wrote:She used, among other things, the Common Black App, which can go to 53 HB colleges. So it's not like she spent $5K and six months on applications. She just got accepted to a ton of schools, which is great news.

But she wasted the time of the schools she was never going to attend, and if a bunch of kids start doing this to stroke their egos, the yield numbers will be out of whack, and some applicants who really do want to go to a specific school will be rejected because the school is accepting those who applied only to brag about the total value of their scholarship offers.

Oh boo hoo hoo! She hedged her bets! Good for her. The schools pay people to look at the applications, so its not a big deal if a miniscule amount of their time got wasted. Schools looks at thousands of applicants and choose just a fraction of them, so why should this student not hedge her bets? Besides, a high achieving URM student is something every school wants and so if she is a hot commodity then why should she not rise her market value? Do you blame Harvard for wasting the money and time of thousands of students for a few seats? No? Then how is she different if she did the same thing back to the colleges?

- Asian American who is happy to see this kid succeed and get into so many colleges.

Good for her! I hope she chooses wisely (i.e., the best fit, not the one that gives her the most money). I graduated from a more selective HBCU for undergrad and it was a great experience.

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Anonymous wrote:You all are sad and jealous. Are you mad because your bribery plans have been exposed and you don’t how you’re going to get your subpar mediocre kids into college? Better start looking at Community.

Who are you talking to exactly? I don't think whatshername Loughlin is on this board.

A hit dog will holler...

Anonymous wrote:You all are sad and jealous. Are you mad because your bribery plans have been exposed and you don’t how you’re going to get your subpar mediocre kids into college? Better start looking at Community.

Who are you talking to exactly? I don't think whatshername Loughlin is on this board.

You all are sad and jealous. Are you mad because your bribery plans have been exposed and you don’t how you’re going to get your subpar mediocre kids into college? Better start looking at Community.

Sounds really inefficient and weird. It would be much more mature and thoughtful to narrow the field in advance, and save all players time and effort.

Anonymous wrote:Last year my granddaughter applied to a dozen schools when she was seriously considering less than half of them. I asked her why she applied to colleges that she was not interested in and she said the school counselor urged her to do it to run up the scholarship offers. It's a thing.

Just one more way modern applying makes it harder for schools and kids to work out what to do.

Is Harvard really more selective, or is it just the randomness that results from all the over-applying?

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Anonymous wrote:It's obnoxious. Thousands of kids could do this every year but they don't because they aren't jerks. She forced admissions offices of at least 45 schools to waste their time on her when she had no intention of attending their schools.

+100

And that's 45 kids who were rejected for every acceptance she got, and no one will fill those slots.

Where do you get that? The schools know that not everyone they accept will accept them, that is why there is such a thing as a “yield”. I had not heard of the common black app but it sounds like high numbers of acceptances is a known thing. She is clearly a hard working young woman, why do you have to put her down.

Not trying to put anyone down. She sounds like a great student. But it's a little obnoxious to apply to 45 schools. Schools have a yield that is based on average behavior, including average number of applications. She is exceeding that by probably 3-4 fold and each school she applied to accepted one less kid because they accepted her. Bummer for those kids (beyond the standard number who get supplanted by one accepted applicant).