OK, here’s the Second Edition to my old CC limericks thread. Here’s the opportunity to reveal your inner bard.
A deep-pocketed alumnus of Yale,
Expected a legacy admit without fail.
But Junior’s SAT score
Was appallingly poor,
So a huge endowment donation entailed.
Now you add a verse.
An unmatched young Snowflake named Cleo:
Her dad predicted ‘name brand’ and ‘CEO’.
Alas it was not to be,
With her 27 ACT,
And merit cash a small fraction of dad’s ego.
An admissions head at the school
applied to normal stats rule
until the athletic director
said “You’d better select her -
her split times makes the coach drool.”
Do I get bonus points since my Post #1 (Snowflake Limerick) is based on a real discussion thread?
A white applicant Fisher complained
Of unconstitutional admissions disdain
Before SCOTUS she pleaded
That Grutter be superseded
By race-blind UT admission ordained
An admission officer/recruiter at Yale
who happened to be an African American
thought it might be a good idea
to have his information/recruiting event
held at the poorest part of our city
where most families are very low income and are African Americans
what actually happened was that
there was zero participant from that poor neighborhood who bothered to come
all participants seem to be hauled from the better part of the town
the fact is that
the chance of a kid from that kind of neighborhood to attend an elite school
is close to zero
However, a kid newly immigrated from a country whose people share the same skin color with the kids living in the inner city
often has a decent chance to make it
because such a kid grew up in a quite privileged background and all members (e.g., parents) of his family are well educated
But there is no denying
his skin color happens to give him
mega bonus points in our system
Well done, @Madison85!!
@mcat2, you might want to google “limerick”… just sayin’.
There once was a fiddler from nowhere,who started the instrument late
was told by everyone in terms endearing, “you are great!”
So to Juilliard they did apply, with stars in their eye
until the pre screen reject, that led to many a cry
(well, you did say lame)
@patsmom, Thanks. Apparently I am not good enough to do that.