<p>Wait a minute. Is UKRUS also Mr. Pink? Because Tokenadult was responding to Mr. Pink. </p>
<p>As for people paying $10,000 for college counselors, a few do and get into Harvard or some other school. I doubt that all 1600 Harvard admits did. I know we did not pay a dime to any college counselor. I’m doubtful that any of the other 11 admits from my S’s public school paid a college counselor, either. A goodly number of them are on financial aid.</p>
<p>Byerly: That’s completely untrue. You could look through my posts, there aren’t very many of them, and I bet you couldn’t find me claiming ‘authority’ over anything. Pretty much the only exception is when people ask about UK applicants’ experience - and there I do have as much experience as anyone here. And even then I’ve said little.</p>
<p>My interest in this forum is mainly intellectual. I therefore discuss the significance of well acknowledged facts - things like the Admissions Consultant phenomenon. I’ve never claimed to have unearthed new truths on admissions.</p>
<p>It’s not my fault you’re so narrow minded you can’t cope with an outsider perspective on things. I mean seriously, you actually included as part of your criticism of me that I “speak from afar” - and there was me thinking Harvard was all about diversity…;)</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh and League Tables - you whipped out those when I made comparisons between Oxford and Harvard.</p>
<p>And no, I’m not Mr Pink. I was referring to a response from TokenAdult further up the thread.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with “speaking from afar” as long as you don’t pretend that you have any special insights due to your distance and to the lack of access to actual data supporting your provocative musings.</p>
<p>@tokenadult: I find that equally disturbing, and that’s why I did not post in chances threads until after I was admitted. ;-)</p>
<p>Responding to UKRUS, I’ll simply say that the pressure-cooked young people don’t seem to fare very well in getting into Harvard, but there are young people all over the world who find their intellectual passions as they become teenagers, pursue those passions, and simply like to find a university experience in which they can meet other young people who share their passions. That may not be what everyone desires to do at the same age, but it seems a silly thing to decry. </p>
<p>Let’s remember that the context of this thread, opened by Byerly, was a newspaper story about a particular student. I’m not going to engage in implicit criticism of that admirable student by bemoaning young people who are dedicated to learning. </p>
<p>Responding to Mr. Pink, I’ll say that’s a funny answer to the question I asked in my reply. :)</p>
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<p>This is untrue. I’m sure there must be some who do this, but none of the Harvard kids I know were this obsessed. My daughter never even thought about Harvard until I suggested to her that she might be qualified after I saw her SAT scores in her junior year of high school. The idea of Harvard slowly grew on her from there. She didn’t really get focused on it until after she was accepted.</p>
<p>She was much too busy pursuing her music and living her high school life to be “dedicated” to getting into Harvard.</p>
<p>"Ben Thibault lands coveted spot at Ivy League University</p>
<p>After graduating from the U of L with a bachelor of science (co-operative education) with great distinction, majoring in biochemistry, on June 2, Ben Thibault will be leaving his lab classes behind to attend Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA.</p>
<p>I applied to Harvard on a whim because I thought I would regret it if I didnt. When Toby Stock, assistant dean for admissions, Harvard Law School, called and said, I just want to congratulate you on being a member of the class of 2009, I was shocked, says Thibault.</p>
<p>Thibault is humble, but scoring in the 99.7th percentile on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and being accepted into Harvard Law School are not modest achievements…"</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=13&s=5918[/url]”>http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=13&s=5918</a></p>
<p>Keisha Stokes, valedictorian at Jackson State University, hopes one day to be president of Jackson State or the first dean of a proposed Jackson State University Law School. She plans to continue her education at Harvard Law School…</p>
<p>Stokes, a native of Jackson, Miss., who majored in history education, is becoming a first-year law student at Harvard Law School. She said she would one day like to work for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.</p>
<p>Stokes distinguished herself as a Presidential and Honors College Scholar, and has made the President’s List every semester. She holds membership in Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Lambda Delta and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She scored in the 85th percentile on the Law School Admissions Test and in the 95th percentile on the Praxis assessment tests used as part of the teaching licensing certification process.</p>
<p>Stokes chose Harvard over such universities as Georgetown, Yale and Texas Southern universities, where she was also accepted. It is a national program and allows better mobility than a regional law school like Ole Miss, she stated.</p>
<p>The future lawyer graduated summa cum laude as class valedictorian, compiling a perfect 4.0 grade point average. She managed to graduate a year early by completing two semesters during four summer school sessions.</p>
<p>Jackson State has well prepared me for the future. I just have to be secure in myself and do my best, she said…" </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.blackcollegewire.org/news/060529_3-grads/[/url]”>http://www.blackcollegewire.org/news/060529_3-grads/</a></p>
<p>“PASADENA, Calif.–Fifteen years ago, Corinna Zygourakis decided at the tender age of seven that she wanted to be a brain surgeon. Now that she’s graduating from the California Institute of Technology and heading for the Health Sciences and Technology (HST) M.D. program of the Harvard Medical School, she still intends to devote her career to the grey matter, although she’s not quite sure yet whether she’ll go into surgery…”</p>
<p><a href=“http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12862.html[/url]”>http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12862.html</a></p>