Anonymous
Post 11/26/2020 00:46     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:So OP is throwing a fit and insulting everyone who disagrees with her insipid position.

And no OP I won't reply to you when you throw a whiny response at me, I'm just here to point out that you're a moron. Sorry about your kids, better luck next time.


OP didn’t “throw a fit,” but it seems like they hit a nerve with you.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 22:43     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP -- I felt this way when someone I grew up with got into a top school. I had known her for 12 years, knew her parents, etc, but we weren't friends. I found out a few years later from a mutual friend that she's 1/4 black. I had no idea...she had long light hair and blue eyes. So maybe there's something here you don't know. Maybe the kid is an URM. Or maybe the family is loaded and you just don't know.


The family is absolutely loaded. No question. But PPs don't like that explanation and want to get out the pitchforks for me pointing that out. Because I guess when you are loaded, that is what you do - pitchforks.


I guess when you're stupid you look for an excuse.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 22:31     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:OP -- I felt this way when someone I grew up with got into a top school. I had known her for 12 years, knew her parents, etc, but we weren't friends. I found out a few years later from a mutual friend that she's 1/4 black. I had no idea...she had long light hair and blue eyes. So maybe there's something here you don't know. Maybe the kid is an URM. Or maybe the family is loaded and you just don't know.


The family is absolutely loaded. No question. But PPs don't like that explanation and want to get out the pitchforks for me pointing that out. Because I guess when you are loaded, that is what you do - pitchforks.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 21:39     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
OP -- I felt this way when someone I grew up with got into a top school. I had known her for 12 years, knew her parents, etc, but we weren't friends. I found out a few years later from a mutual friend that she's 1/4 black. I had no idea...she had long light hair and blue eyes. So maybe there's something here you don't know. Maybe the kid is an URM. Or maybe the family is loaded and you just don't know.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 20:51     Subject: Re:Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ivies are overrated. My DS turned down Princeton and went to Berklee school of music. He dropped out of Berklee after two years and worked with artists like Imagined Dragons and Sean Mendes. He is very happy as a musician and wouldn’t care much about Princeton.


Well, that's great for your son. For real. But that has absolutely nothing to do with Princeton. Serious musicians go to conservatories. (Also, it's Imagine Dragons.)


Unless she imagined the whole thing in which case it would be Imaginary Dragons
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 19:57     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
I know a woman who lives in my town who attended Columbia college as an undergrad. She didn't go on to do Graduate studies and she is probably one of the most high maintenance, highly strung, narcissists that I've ever met. I was literally astonished that she had gone there. I'm sure it happens. All the time.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 19:46     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:Applying from out of the country is a hook. So it’s not surprising that kid got in.

I grew up in Northern VA. Never have heard of an average kid getting into an Ivy. I hear of a lot of amazing kids getting rejected, though! The legacy- donor admits were so highly privileged that anything average about them had been erased by life experiences and excellent top private schools.


Why do you think applying from out of the country is a hook? You know the ivies get tens of thousands of non-US applicants and the acceptance rates are lower than the domestic, right?

Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 19:15     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
Applying from out of the country is a hook. So it’s not surprising that kid got in.

I grew up in Northern VA. Never have heard of an average kid getting into an Ivy. I hear of a lot of amazing kids getting rejected, though! The legacy- donor admits were so highly privileged that anything average about them had been erased by life experiences and excellent top private schools.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 19:01     Subject: Re:Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:Ivies are overrated. My DS turned down Princeton and went to Berklee school of music. He dropped out of Berklee after two years and worked with artists like Imagined Dragons and Sean Mendes. He is very happy as a musician and wouldn’t care much about Princeton.


Well, that's great for your son. For real. But that has absolutely nothing to do with Princeton. Serious musicians go to conservatories. (Also, it's Imagine Dragons.)
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 18:44     Subject: Re:Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:You sound jealous. Sorry you’re pained that someone else’s kid got in.


No, just surprised. That's different.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 18:43     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:My son was at Stanford and told me about a boy who transferred in his second year. He said the boy worked his ass off, and there were many, MANY talks among everyone who knew him worrying he was going to have a nervous breakdown. He told me the guy would cry, bang his head against his desk, yell at people who were trying to help him that he couldn't calm down enough to work.

I think his parents pushed him really hard. All the other kids rallied around and tried to tutor him and help as much as they could without getting sucked into his vortex. A couple of friends invited themselves home with the kid, with the express purpose of telling the parents to dial down the pressure.

It was really sad, and at the same time I was so proud of all the other kids for how much they tried to help. Every time I sent my son a care package I'd send a second one for this kid - his parents were so hard on him that I wasn't sure they were doing that.




I feel sorry for that kid, and now that kid knows his parents thinks he sucks.

Do you think a student essay would possibly be what gets a kid into a higher reach nowadays (whether or not written by the student, or whether or not the topic was "true" - as per other PP)? Or do you think the parent strong armed or flat out bribed someone, like a coach? A coach would be harder to track, I suppose - and unless you are a celebrity, a bribe or bribes might not make the front page.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 18:41     Subject: Re:Average kid in an Ivy
You sound jealous. Sorry you’re pained that someone else’s kid got in.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 18:36     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Someone I heard of got a luxury RV and parked it in a luxury RV resort. The family's two kids then became homeless under the federal definition of homeless. If you are homeless you are eligible for free lunch program. Many academic summer programs give scholarships to anyone on free lunch. Kids write essays saying they were homeless. Technically they were but grandparents lived nearby and kids and parents were usually there. They go every summer to amazing summer camps for free and I am sure they will use their being "homeless" to their benefit when applying to colleges.


bullshit!!!


I believe it.


I don’t. Tinfoil hats don’t look good on me.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 17:59     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Someone I heard of got a luxury RV and parked it in a luxury RV resort. The family's two kids then became homeless under the federal definition of homeless. If you are homeless you are eligible for free lunch program. Many academic summer programs give scholarships to anyone on free lunch. Kids write essays saying they were homeless. Technically they were but grandparents lived nearby and kids and parents were usually there. They go every summer to amazing summer camps for free and I am sure they will use their being "homeless" to their benefit when applying to colleges.


bullshit!!!


I believe it.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2020 17:29     Subject: Average kid in an Ivy
No one is pooping in a chemical toilet for years to get an edge for little Larla applying to Harvard