First Daughter's College Choice?

musicprnt
Tue, 03 May 2016 20:05:06 +0000

@soccerguy315:
“I am, however, somewhat offended by the stuff the Washington Post keeps writing about how “every child should take a gap year” and then quoting Harvard’s own admissions people who say that kids are getting burnt out and no longer allowed to fail, when Harvard (and others) are the ones driving that!!!”

I totally agree, a lot of these elite colleges are playing a cutesy game IMO, on the one hand they nod gravely at the pressure being put on kids, talk about the rat race of college admissions, how the pressure to be perfect may be creating kids afraid to take risks, afraid to try something different, or who all want to major in a relatively few fields and so forth and form committees and such to study the problem…yet the same school prominently displays the stats for their incoming classes, the high gpas, the academic achievement, the test scores, and of course, the acceptance rate. Yeah, I read the PR piece put out by the Stanford Dean saying a low acceptance rate was nothing to be proud of, but it is the classic case of “I am shocked, shocked to find out there was gambling going on here”…“Your winnings, sir”…the Onion (least I think it was the Onion) had this headline about how Stanford’s acceptance rate was 0%, and some donor gave them 500 million dollars to celebrate that accomplishment. I’ll believe that when I see the elite colleges A)not publish their stats the way they do and B)when they come up with admissions that aren’t entirely based on numbers, which when you cut through the fog they create, is the baseline of it all IMO. The reality is that the idiots on Fox News can rant and rave about Malia, but she is no different than a lot of the kids who get into elite schools, many of them come from families with the income and resources, school districts and the like, that give them the edge they need to get in… (well, it is a numbers race even with the scions of the rich who aren’t so smart, they get in for another number, $$$$$$).