<p>Wow - Oxford! Wonder how she managed it?</p>
<p>I thought I read on a CC thread that Northwestern was the school slunk off to.</p>
<p>Maybe it was. My memory says “Oxford” but I wouldn’t bet more than a quarter on it.</p>
<p>Frazzled, BH’s ethics aside, if she got into Harvard, she obviously had something on the ball that would look attractive to other schools as well.</p>
<p>I found CC from a reference to it on the Princeton Review site. When I first looked at CC a few years ago it wasn’t very interesting. More recently, the last couple of years, it has become much more interesting, and in the meantime PR self-destructed. I recognize several people here on CC who used to post on PR as well.</p>
<p>It is interesting that a Google search on “Blair Hornstine” only turns up the stuff from the year she was graduating from high school (when her Harvard admission was rescinded). She seems to be flying below the radar now. </p>
<p>There was no doubt that she was smart, but I would think that any school has more to lose than to gain by giving a space in the freshman class to an admitted plagiarist, unless indeed the school’s take was that the daughter was pressured by the dad, and the daughter needs to spread her wings away from home.</p>
<p>I found CC through a link in MIT’s Admissions Officer McGann’s blog’s comments/feedback section. I also found it late in the game. CC has been a huge assistance in everything college. I was born and raised here in San Jose, went to college here, SJSU, and have worked and lived here my whole life. So when my only child said, “I want to go away for college”, I kinda didn’t know exactly what to expect. No one else in my family had ever “gone away to college”. Well I have learned quite a bit here and I really don’t know what I would do without all the parents (and kids) posts on every subject imaginable.</p>
<p>The biggest help was realizing the issues we were and are dealing with are not unique to us, not by any means. It is happening everywhere, meaning I can learn from other people’s experiences - that is invaluable to me. THANKS!!! :)</p>
<p>Like many others I think I followed a link from the PR site. It’s a little fuzzy now, but I remember being confused then because I didn’t even realize I had left the PR website. I thought it was all the same website. Obviously I was hot on the trail of college info.</p>
<p>I must confess doing some research on Blair Hornstine as well!! Being from NJ, I also was curious where she ended up. I found nothing. (Even typed her name into a few online college student directories!!). This weekend I will see cousins who have a son at Oxford. I will ask them to check if she’s there!!</p>
<p>I found this through the princeton review site that I’ve been lurking for years but never post.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was graduating early from high school (at age 14 and a bit :eek: ), and all the talk of apps and deadlines finally got to me. I started hanging around the college communities on [url=“<a href=“http://www.livejournal.com%22%5DLiveJournal%5B/url”>http://www.livejournal.com”]LiveJournal[/url</a>] and moved on to CC after seeing it referenced in many of the posts. I wasn’t really going to join, but the people were so nice…and the discussions were so interesting…and before long I ended up with a nasty little addiction. :D</p>
<p>googled SAT prep</p>
<p>Son used my computer profile to visit CC on the computer Dec of 2003 after he had been defered early action ( He was too anxious to log me off and go to his own profile) </p>
<p>I discovered CC listed in the “History of sites visited” in the Internet Explorer and visited to see what it was all about.</p>