How would you respond to this statement about college admissions

[mimk6]

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Note how no one ever claims their spots are “stolen” by elite prep school grads, though it’s just as much of a possibility as being stolen by a URM!

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<p>Well, I, for one, am greatly bothered by this and have been for a long time. My kids go to a public school where one college counselor serves over 3,000 kids. Budget cuts cost her the part-time aide she had. She has other responsibilities besides college counseling. It bothers me a great deal that the top private school in our area gets way more kids into HYPS than our school does because I know the quality of applicants is about the same. They just have an incredible ratio of college counselors to students, they can afford to send their counselors to campuses all over the country and I know those counselors have the time to cultivate relationships with adcoms while our counselor can barely keep up with the basics. Of course it makes a difference and our school is full of top-flight URM kids as well as non URM kids and the playing field is not even with private schools. </p>

<p>My daughter, who graduated from Yale, has told me on many occasions that she is absolutely certain that if she had not had me to help her navigate the college application process, she never would have gotten in, because no one at her school would have had the time to help her figure out the private college application process.</p>

[Northstarmom]

<p>“And I can see why a school like Mary Washington would have problems attracting males.”</p>

<p>It sounds like a girl’s school since it is named after a woman.</p>

[pugmadkate]

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I don’t really understand this statement. Can you explain what a college would like with diversity “in all areas”? What does that mean? And how is the world becoming “more diverse” by the day?

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<p>Diversity in terms of gender, race, religion, geography, income and so on. I should have said the world is becoming more visably diverse. People are not under the same pressure of past generations to conform to a norm. </p>

<p>For example, the conservative school that my son was advised to apply to because they are looking for more diversity. The school in question is very white and very conservative. They are failing to give their students the experience of knowing and learning with people of color, gays and lesbians and so on. This school feels that their students are getting an incomplete education and are at a disadvantadge when they go into the global marketplace.</p>

<p>I’m sure this school has always had gay students but what they want to is gay people who are out. That’s what I meant by the world becoming more diverse.</p>

[gwgrad]

<p>+1. And, the woman clearly was hurt that her son was rejected, and should’ve have mixed URM in some cases POSSIBLE with her kid being rejected. Rejection = something open to everyone.</p>