Entitled HS senior defends herself

[ttt]

She's just making it worse...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304083/Suzy-Lee-Weiss-Entitled-high-school-senior-sparks-firestorm-writing-biting-open-letter-Ivy-League-schools-rejected-her.html

'Entitled' high school senior sparks a firestorm of anger after she
writes a scathing open letter to the Ivy League schools that rejected
her

By
Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:

13:54 EST, 4 April 2013


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UPDATED:

04:56 EST, 5 April 2013

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A high school senior who wrote an
open letter to the Ivy League universities that rejected her has sparked
a firestorm of anger, with readers accusing her of being 'entitled',
'whiny' and even racist.

But
others have praised Suzy Lee Weiss, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for
the honesty and 'accuracy' of her article, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Friday.

She said she wrote the piece after she was rejected from a string of schools in one day.

Despite the teenager's 4.5 GPA, an SAT score of 2120 and work experience as a U.S. Senate page, she was shunned by Princeton, Yale, Vanderbilt and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Controversial: Suzy Lee Weiss, pictured on the
Today show, wrote an open letter to colleges that rejected her, saying
she believed she did not get in because she was not 'diverse' enough

In her article she blamed not getting
into the schools on the fact that she was not 'diverse' enough, and she
even accused her parents of giving up on her because she is the last of
four children.

She started
out with an attack on diversity, suggesting that her white skin,
business-owner parents and good education worked against her in the
application process.

 

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'What could I have done differently over
the past years?' she wrote. 'For starters, had I known two years ago what I know now,
I would have gladly worn a headdress to school. Show me to any closet,
and I would've happily come out of it.'

She added she regrets not going to summer camps in Africa where she could 'scoop up some suffering child, take a few
pictures, and write my essays about how spending that afternoon with
Kinto changed my life. 

Suzy Lee Weiss defends her scathing open letter to Ivy League...

Cause: Her article appeared on the Wall Street Journal and has sparked mixed reactions

Of her parents she added: 'As the youngest of four daughters, I noticed long ago that my parents gave up on parenting me.

'My
parents also left me with a dearth of hobbies that make admissions
committees salivate. I've never sat down at a piano, never plucked a
violin.'

The article outraged many, who accused her of being entitled, self-indulgent and even racist.

'Entitled little brat,' one Twitter
user said, as another said: 'Choking on the petulant privilege of Suzy
Lee Weiss & hoping she matures out of her ignorance rather than
being bolstered by a book deal.'

Another
directed a message to Weiss, saying: 'Your letter reveals your
republican homophobic leanings and hatred of others not exactly like
you. Grow up.'

Shock: Readers accused her of being entitled, whiny and racist after she said she was not diverse enough

Fans: But others said that the article was 'brutally accurate' and praised Weiss for her courage

'WE WERE LIED TO': SNIPPETS OF SUZY'S SARCASTIC LETTER

'For
starters, had I known two years ago what I know now, I would have
gladly worn a headdress to school. Show me to any closet, and I would've
happily come out of it. I offer about as much diversity as a saltine
cracker.

'I
also probably should have started a fake charity... Raising awareness
for Chapped-Lips-in-the-Winter Syndrome. As long as you're using someone
else's misfortunes to try to propel yourself into the Ivy League,
you're golden.

'As
the youngest of four daughters, I noticed long ago that my parents gave
up on parenting me. My parents also left me with a dearth of hobbies
that make admissions committees salivate.

'I
should've done what I knew was best - go to Africa, scoop up some
suffering child, take a few pictures, and write my essays about how
spending that afternoon with Kinto changed my life.'

Source: Wall Street Journal

But
others applauded her outspoken rant, saying she was simply telling the
truth about tough application processes, while some noted that the piece
was simply sarcastic and fun.

On
Twitter, one reader noted she 'makes brutally accurate assessments of
college admissions,' while another added: 'Saying what you feel is not
always easy or popular! She is going places!'

'It was a joke,' Weiss insisted on Today on
Thursday. 'It's a satire. That's the point. Just like '30 Rock' is a
satire, which pokes fun at things that are politically correct. That's
what I was trying to do.'

She
said that before writing the letter she had been crying to her mother,
who complained she had heard too much moaning and told her to speak to
someone else.

She called
her sister, a former assistant editor of the Op-Ed section at the Wall
Street Journal, who said she should write about her feelings, leading to
the article.

In turn, the article has led to offers of jobs and internship, Weiss said.

She added that while diversity is 'wonderful', universities do need to change their attitudes.

'In this day and age, we’re being judged on things that we cannot control as opposed to things that we can,' she told Today.com.

Good student: Weiss, left with a relative and right, has top grades and has worked as a U.S. Senate page

'Didn't do enough': She blames her parents
(pictured) for her failure to make the colleges, saying they gave up on
her because she was the fourth child and did not encourage her to take
music lessons

Where next? She attends Taylor Allderdice High
School in Pittsburgh, pictured, and has been rejected from Princeton,
Yale, Vanderbilt and the University of Pennsylvania

After
being so critical of people who carried out volunteer work and
accusing them of being insincere, she said that she knows not everyone
does it for their resume.

'I've
done a ton of volunteer work, and let me tell you, it wasn't just to
get into college,' she said. 'But I do think there's a lot of resume
padding going on right now, just to get into these amazing schools.'

She said that, for the most part, people had been really positive to her about the article.

'Everyone
my age, whether they wanted to get into Penn state their whole lives or
Harvard is agreeing with me that it's just a rat race nowadays and it’s
such a business model as opposed to who's most qualified should get
in,' she said. 'It's a crapshoot and I understand that.'

To see more of her interview from the Today Show click here

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[Melissa W.]

She doesn't understand satire.

[IIOY]

I'm sorry but I am too busy laughing at this:

"'Didn't do enough': She blames her parents
(pictured) for her failure to make the colleges, saying they gave up on
her because she was the fourth child and did not encourage her to take
music lessons"

[2curlydogs]

Sweetie, you are not Tina Fey.

Also, please go look up the definition of "satire" Because I do not think it means what you think it means.

[meshaliuknits]

Can she go to Stanfurd? Please?

[Velar Fricative]

Apr 5, 2013 14:14:21 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Sweetie, you are not Tina Fey.

Also, please go look up the definition of "satire" Because I do not think it means what you think it means.

For real. No wonder the Ivies didn't want her. I'm sure all those gay Native Americans that volunteered in Africa know what satire means.

[cattledogkisses]

I still want to know what her parents think about this. If she was my kid, she'd be paying her own way through community college.

[overture]

Sorry, not everyone gets to go to a top-tier school. Even girls with 4.5 GPAs. In this day of inflated grades, wtf does a 4.5 mean anyway?

You know what? I was a high school dropout and transferred to Berkeley from a community college with no fucking problem.

You find another way.

[ttt]

Also, her SAT score is great, but not exceptional. It's right in the middle or on the low end of the averages for those schools.

[foundmylazybum]

Ugh. This is awful but she looks exactly like how I imagined her.

Also exactly like how I imagined a "suzy" to look. Sorry to anyone here named Suzy.

[Velar Fricative]

Apr 5, 2013 14:21:49 GMT -5 ttt said:

Also, her SAT score is great, but not exceptional. It's right in the middle or on the low end of the averages for those schools.

But that's her parents' fault.

[kadams767]

Apr 5, 2013 14:16:03 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Can she go to Stanfurd? Please?

Maybe she will get into Stansbury...the Harvard of the West. 

[ringstrue]

I can see the 4th kid feeling a heavy pressure from what their older siblings did. I know my brother who has 3 older sisters did. I have to admit I have nofucking clue what gets someone into an Ivy League school if a 4.5 GPA and a 2 million SAT score can't.

[eddy]

She needs to just sat her ass down and be quiet. Sssshh Suzy!

[eddy]

Also I am like "I didn't even earn a scholarship to a state university" smart and even I know you need to do a lot of shit to get into an Ivy school. WTF dummy

[Velar Fricative]

Apr 5, 2013 14:25:09 GMT -5 kadams767 said:

Apr 5, 2013 14:16:03 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Can she go to Stanfurd? Please?

Maybe she will get into Stansbury...the Harvard of the West. 

I love you. I was thinking about Stansbury too and wasn't sure who'd remember where that's from.

[Deleted]

where is she going to college?

[ttt]

I also love how she's complaining about her lack of opportunity to do internships because she's not related to someone important, but she's related to an editor at the WSJ and was a US Senate page.

So so obnoxious.

[crazytalk]

I'm laughing at her "but it was a jooooke" -- she belongs on the nest. She'd DD that shit if she could.

[kadams767]

Apr 5, 2013 14:34:51 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Apr 5, 2013 14:25:09 GMT -5 kadams767 said:

Maybe she will get into Stansbury...the Harvard of the West. 

I love you. I was thinking about Stansbury too and wasn't sure who'd remember where that's from.

I'm now sitting at my desk mumbling "Staaansbury" over and over. 

[meshaliuknits]

Apr 5, 2013 14:36:14 GMT -5 @septimus said:

where is she going to college?

Cal.

[Deleted]

Apr 5, 2013 14:50:01 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Apr 5, 2013 14:36:14 GMT -5 @septimus said:

where is she going to college?

Cal.

WTF and she's bitching? Cal is incredibly hard to get into in-state, never mind out of state. It is probably just as hard as Harvard which like Harvard applying and getting into Cal is a crap shoot.

[Velar Fricative]

Apr 5, 2013 14:50:01 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Apr 5, 2013 14:36:14 GMT -5 @septimus said:

where is she going to college?

Cal.

Wow, what a shit school she got into. Totally worth bitching in the WSJ about it.

Seriously, WTF? Cal is pretty tough to get into for out-of-staters.

ETA: jinx @septimus.

[cattledogkisses]

Maybe her parents should actually give up on parenting her, and stop paying her bills and living expenses. I just can't get over the ungratefulness.

[PinkSquirrel]

Where I went to high school the honors kids were on a 5.0 GPA scale, so a 4.5 meant you got the same grades as someone with a 3.5, but you took honors classes. Also, her SAT scores don't seem that great either. 2120/2400 percentage wise would be like getting a 1400 out of the 1600 that was the max when I was in high school. No one thought a 1400 was good enough to secure you a spot in an Ivy back then, so why on earth would a 2120 be good enough now. Is it a great score, sure, but it's not Ivy material.

She's an obnoxious entitled little shit that doesn't get that even if you take away everyone's extracurricular, she's just doesn't have the grades/scores to compete for an Ivy league spot.

[Deleted]

^o)

Well thank God DS has been in violin for the last year. Glad to know I can stop saving for college since Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the like with throw scholarship money at him since he had music lessons.

[NitaX]

Apr 5, 2013 14:32:33 GMT -5 eddy said:

She needs to just sat her ass down and be quiet. Sssshh Suzy!

Right. 
In my Big Momma voice - Gone over there SAT DOWN and SHUT UP. 'Round here embarrassin' family and what not with this foolishness. Act like you got some dayum sense girl."

[msmerymac]

I wonder if she applied anywhere OTHER than Yale, Princeton, Vanderbilt or UPenn?

[msmerymac]

Apr 5, 2013 14:21:35 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

eh?

Every couple years, I get 1 or 2 kids who go to Ivy. They're extraordinary kids. They're not rat-racing, resume-padding fakers who fake. You don't make yourself equal to your peers / competitors by cutting them down, which is what all her bitching attempts to do.

She validated my opinion of her as entitled, and the only thing extraordinary about her is her bitter spite.

Yeah, unless she is valedictorian and on a varsity sport, I don't see why Yale or Princeton should have taken her. 

The valedictorian of my high school class got wait listed at Harvard. Blah, blah, life moves on, she went to an awesomely awesome west coast school and then got a PhD, and is doing a post doc in Australia. Life's hard. Her then-boyfriend was ALSO valedictorian of his class, but he was captain of his crew team, and was scouted by Yale. Lucky him. Sounds like this girl wasn't good enough. Sorry!

[Deleted]

Apr 5, 2013 15:13:01 GMT -5 @wonderred said:

Well thank God DS has been in violin for the last year. Glad to know I can stop saving for college since Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the like with throw scholarship money at him since he had music lessons.

Don't forget this.