College Admissions

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<p>I found this article on another thread. I thought it’s interesting. What are your thoughts?</p>

<p>[College</a> Admissions](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Polk_Groton_Grads.htm]College”>WSJ.com - For Groton Grads, Academics Aren't Only Keys to Ivy Schools)</p>

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<p>Awesome parenting skills here…</p>

<p>(Also, 1998? Isn’t this kid in a nursing home by now anyway?)</p>

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<p>The article is not about the kid. It is about the inner workings of ivy college admissions which most of us are interested in demystifying.</p>

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<p>Wait, so you’re saying colleges have various institutional goals to fulfill in admissions and aren’t just seeking to let in whoever has the highest test scores? Who knew?!?!</p>

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<p>I think it’s immensely unfair to average Americans that want to go to ivies or other colleges. Why rely on factors students can’t control? Is it our fault that we aren’t multimillionaires, and can’t donate millions? I honestly think students who aren’t minorities, famous, or rich should be able to stand a chance at least.
Enough with the nonsense!</p>

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<p>Colleges point of view: This is how we build huge endowments that we don’t know what to do with, instead of making colleges more accessible and affordable to average Americans.</p>

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<p>AFAIK the intent of affirmative action is to correct for the fact that not everyone is born with the same opportunities. You have to consider people’s accomplishments in the context of their socioeconomic status. We have control over a lot less than we think we do.
I’m not sure why legacy/developmental admits are being discussed in the same article as affirmative action for members of underrepresented groups…they’re both debatable/controversial topics, but they’re not the same issue.</p>

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<p>You could always become a self made multimillionaire before you graduate high school by starting a really successful business.</p>

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<p>You need to study business first before you start one if you want to be successful.</p>

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<p>Lol, did Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg study business? I think not. What you need is brilliance, which 99.999% don’t have.</p>

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<p>99.999% of people don’t into harvard.</p>

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<p>First of all they are not millionaires before they finished high school. Even if they didn’t know business, they hired MBAs to do the work for them.</p>