<p>This dad and his daughter need to stop making fools of themselves with the tippy-top LAC alma mater and start spending some quality time figuring out what colleges she might have a chance of getting into. With a C average and no activities, that is not gong to be an easy exercise, even towards the bottom of the top-100 LAC list. I don’t even understand why this tippy-top LAC was even on her list.</p>
<p>Please, let us know how this turns out. I admire an adcom who says no in this instance – a well-known alum and donor with a slacker kid. </p>
<p>Am I horrible to be a little gleeful about this?</p>
<p>"C average is rigorous classes, a rank smack in the middle of the class, and zero (literally) extracurricular activities. Never had a job, never played a sport, never joined a team, never volunteered. Zero. "
well, with all the opportunities she had [ smarts, legacy, involved Dad, etc] , apparently she dug her own grave with that record[ or non record as it were]
She’ll never get in.</p>
<p>Legacy kids with this type of giving have less than a 50% admission rate to Yale. That number sounds high but these advantaged kids have resources and opportunities that lead to high objective stats as a group too. I agree with the others that if an admission could have been extended it would have been done so already.</p>
<p>“The girl is has either a perfect (superscored) SAT score very close to it (it was 2380 last time and it may have gone up, I forget), with a C average is rigorous classes, a rank smack in the middle of the class, and zero (literally) extracurricular activities. Never had a job, never played a sport, never joined a team, never volunteered. Zero.”</p>
<p>I don’t know this “wonderful guy” dad, but I just gotta say, had he been as focused on his daughters activities and homework in the last seven years as he was with his alumni giving - there might have been a different outcome in the ED round.</p>
<p>I understand that none of us can do much more than lead a horse to water, but . . . we can sure take the TV out of the stable!</p>
<p>this story is making my skin crawl. I just hope this admissions department continues to hold firm and not admit her. I feel badly for this girl. Sounds like she’s never learned how to stand on her own two feet. Her father isn’t really helping her, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Even if dad could get his daughter into this tippy top LAC, he should worry if his daughter could perform (compete) at this school. Assuming this kid is smart, her GPA shows she is a slacker, what make him think she is going to change in college. Sometimes getting in is easier than staying in.</p>
<p>glido:
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<p>My nomination for CC one-liner of the year!</p>
<p>^^^^ Mommusic, I agree. :)</p>
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Parents are divorced and mom is very, very spiteful. Because Dad believed in music and participation, mom went out of her way to thwart those possibilities and did everything she could to encourage couch sitting. It’s been an ongoing battle since the divorce, unfortunately. The younger daughter is two years younger and is at the top of the class, committed to a couple of extracurriculars, and has started a genuinely interesting and helpful charity because she saw a need and filled it. THis happened in middle school, so it wasn’t college related, but has really grown beyond what anyone could have anticipated. I suspect a different outcome for that child. </p>
<p>I gently warned the dad about the value of safeties. There is only one, at which she is ethnically and geograhically diverse. But it’s not selective, it’s not located where she wants to be, and she doesn’t want to go. Glad I’m not one of their parents.</p>
<p>I’m surprised the dad hasn’t gotten the call from development yet in which he is told that she’ll be strongly considered as a transfer after 2 good college years, but that it just can’t happen now. Those calls are routine.</p>
<p>^^^ Another likely scenario, though I think it will happen only after she is waitlisted in the RD round. Sometimes in these cases, the kid will fall in love with culinary school or backpacking in Europe or whatever, and the legacy school is off the hook.</p>
<p>Are you sure this girl actually took the SAT herself or did alumn dad or spiteful mom hire a stand-in?</p>
<p>She took the SAT three times. She is a phenomenal reader of incredible literature and has been since a very young age. Reading can be done on a couch!!</p>