Post by Velar Fricative on Apr 5, 2013 15:37:04 GMT -5
Honestly, college admissions is such a crapshoot and if this girl was so smart she'd realize that. Harvard doesn't have room to admit every single valedictorian in the country, and they certainly don't admit *only* valedictorians. Likewise with the other Ivies. Hell, Cornell (an Ivy) waitlisted me and Boston College (so not an Ivy) flat-out rejected me.
But no, it's all her parents' fault for not birthing a gay Native American orchestra bassoonist.
Is anyone else thinking that this all probably is her parents' fault, but just not for the reasons she thinks it is?
lolol
Although, her mama telling her to go cry to someone else about it makes me think she might be one of those high strung, drama llama hot messes who got that way all by their lonesomes. Unfortunately, sometimes, kids are just like that.
Honestly, college admissions is such a crapshoot and if this girl was so smart she'd realize that. Harvard doesn't have room to admit every single valedictorian in the country, and they certainly don't admit *only* valedictorians. Likewise with the other Ivies. Hell, Cornell (an Ivy) waitlisted me and Boston College (so not an Ivy) flat-out rejected me.
But no, it's all her parents' fault for not birthing a gay Native American orchestra bassoonist.
But, but, but SHE IS SPEEESHULLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!! She's even more super fantastic that people who wear a headdress.
Can't ya'll see this?! I bet she has a unicorn too. Bask in her fantabuloususness. Y'all just hatin'. Harvard isn't COMPLETE without her.
Ok she needs to stfu then, lol. Wah, wah, I'm only going to one of the best public school systems in the country I have to say I'm a bit surprised she didn't get into Vandy though. I would have thought she'd be their typical applicant. Almost good enough for the tippy top tier but not quite.
She apparently lacks the critical thinking skills necessary to recognize the disconnect between her belief that getting into Harvard is super-easy if you're a Native American and the fact that Native American reservations are actually not filled with Harvard graduates.
Ok she needs to stfu then, lol. Wah, wah, I'm only going to one of the best public school systems in the country  I have to say I'm a bit surprised she didn't get into Vandy though. I would have thought she'd be their typical applicant. Almost good enough for the tippy top tier but not quite.  Â
It's not ranked as high as the ivies, but I believe its selection rates are equally tough. That said, she certainly sounds like the typical student. Entitlement abounds.
Ok she needs to stfu then, lol. Wah, wah, I'm only going to one of the best public school systems in the country I have to say I'm a bit surprised she didn't get into Vandy though. I would have thought she'd be their typical applicant. Almost good enough for the tippy top tier but not quite.
It's not ranked as high as the ivies, but I believe its selection rates are equally tough. That said, she certainly sounds like the typical student. Entitlement abounds.
Who the eff cares though (directed at Suz)? I mean, bitching that you only got in to 5 out of the top 10 schools and YOUR top 5 were not all included is just ludicrous. She is a young entitled brat and hopefully when she grows up she will see that. I didn't get in to the #1 liberal arts college and it felt like the end of the fucking world. (I blamed myself though). I did get wait listed at #2 and attended #4 and you know what? It DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL. Not only is it splitting hairs once you get up to the schools she's applying to, but by the time I went to grad school, the smartest, most prepared people where those who went to Giant State University of Flyover and University of East StartswithM State. If you are motivated, able to pay and have had the very good fortune of attending a decent high school, you can get a top notch education at any accredited university.
asdfjkl I ain't even trying to think of how it would go in my house if I'd showed any of this kind of attitude but I imagine it would be something like this:
She apparently lacks the critical thinking skills necessary to recognize the disconnect between her belief that getting into Harvard is super-easy if you're a Native American and the fact that Native American reservations are actually not filled with Harvard graduates.
Fact: the guy who founded Dartmouth did so as a way to educate the Native Americans, and that's why it's in the middle of nowhere. At least, that was his cover story. In reality, in over 200 years, about 19 Native Americans graduated from Dartmouth.
So starting in 1970ish, they actually did decide to have some kind of initiative to recruit Native American students, and they've graduated about 700 since. 700, 40 years, so about 17 a year. Out of a class of about 1500. And that's more than any of the other Ivies COMBINED.
But this girl didn't even apply to Dartmouth, so the point is moot. Lol.
It's not ranked as high as the ivies, but I believe its selection rates are equally tough. That said, she certainly sounds like the typical student. Entitlement abounds.
Who the eff cares though (directed at Suz)? I mean, bitching that you only got in to 5 out of the top 10 schools and YOUR top 5 were not all included is just ludicrous. She is a young entitled brat and hopefully when she grows up she will see that. I didn't get in to the #1 liberal arts college and it felt like the end of the fucking world. (I blamed myself though). I did get wait listed at #2 and attended #4 and you know what? It DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL. Not only is it splitting hairs once you get up to the schools she's applying to, but by the time I went to grad school, the smartest, most prepared people where those who went to Giant State University of Flyover and University of East StartswithM State. If you are motivated, able to pay and have had the very good fortune of attending a decent high school, you can get a top notch education at any accredited university.
I think you also inadvertantly made the point that people will care more about your experience (what did you do during college? Who did you work with? What classes and internships and jobs did you do?) and your graduate education than they will whether you went to UPenn or Cal.
Ok she needs to stfu then, lol. Wah, wah, I'm only going to one of the best public school systems in the country I have to say I'm a bit surprised she didn't get into Vandy though. I would have thought she'd be their typical applicant. Almost good enough for the tippy top tier but not quite.
It's not ranked as high as the ivies, but I believe its selection rates are equally tough. That said, she certainly sounds like the typical student. Entitlement abounds.
My intern's brother probably went goes to a private prep school and supposedly has perfect SAT scores and it bitter like Suzy because he only got into Vandy and another similar school and none of the Ivys or Stanford and kids ranked lower than him at his school did.
Honestly I could see H's brother writing this article. And he is NOWHERE near as qualified as this chick. And he didn't apply to any ivies. So besides that lol. He graduated third or fourth in his class from a large, well-ranked public school, and I think did decent on his SATs. He did no extracurriculars but was in the choir (which was a class at his HS). He did not even have a job of any sort. He applied to one college, a small state school. He was wait-listed.
OMG. he was so unbelievably insulted. Like, you know how if you are wait-listed, you typically have to send something back saying to that you want to be placed on the wait list? He refused because he COULD NOT BELIEVE that this school would DARE to wait list him. I think he said "if they don't want me I don't want them." He went to the community college instead (and is now going to be starting at a different state school, so it IS all working out, so good for him.) But I couldn't get over his sense of entitlement, and I honestly blame the school counselors or whoever heads up college applications. MIL didnt go to college so I'm sure she has no idea of the process, she wasn't really a part of it when H was applying to schools. So I guess he just had no one to give him a realistic impression of the process.
I think to a certain extent this goes with the "everyone gets a trophy" mentality we talk about on here. Not everyone is going to get into Harvard. And honestly, if she was a US Senate Page, I can't believe she wasn't around other people who wanted to go to Harvard who were more qualified than her, to help sort of bring her back to reality.