<p>I am so ashamed that my S is a Dartmouth student that I can barely face the neighbors and only visit the supermarket at very late or early hours so as to avoid meeting former friends, and then heavily veiled.</p>
<p>Then you might want to take that bumper sticker off your Volvo.</p>
<p>Yes, in better times, personal tragedies of this sort remained, in fact, personal. Now the quarelesome busy bodies at the UNSWR and now Forbes insist on running the flag of abject failure up the flag pole. Nothing, literally nothing,I is sadder than to see an untalented child ruin the social standing of an innocent parent.</p>
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<p>I believe she has a Yale bumper sticker on that Volvo, so she doesn’t need to take it off.</p>
<p>In that case I recommend the following course of action:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Carefully remove and preserve sticker.</p></li>
<li><p>Discard unadorned Volvo.</p></li>
<li><p>Replace with Range Rover or Cayenne.</p></li>
<li><p>Reaffix sticker.</p></li>
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<p>I took the analytic section the first year they offered it on the GREs I believe. My recollection is that I got something in the high 600s. I remember I was slow because even if I solved the problem it took me forever to figure out what to bubble. As I recall the answers were something like “If a and b are true circle A”, “If b and d are true circle B”, :“If a and d are true circle C”, “If c and d are true circle D”, “If everything is true circle F”, “If nothing is true is circle G”, “If there isn’t enough information to know what is true circle H”. I didn’t study either and got 750 in math too. As an art/design major with one year of calc, I thought that was pretty good. :)</p>
<p>Stats21 - ROFL!</p>
<p>Is the OP really this socially awkward or is something else going on here…</p>
<p>in any case I’m not against ratings and rankings. I like it when my kids school, college or high school, is rated highly…it feels good. And I guess I do know people who get frustrated or angry that their school isn’t ranked higher in usnwr or the hs rankings. It’s a common refrain with some (only some) of my Cal friends.</p>
<p>And I have nothing against proud parents with bumper stickers. I have a bumper sticker! It’s a lot of hard work to raise kids and provide them with good opportunities. And whether you’re a single low income parent or you live in Palo Alto in a 3 million dollar home you should be proud of the work you did helping your kid get to a good school. </p>
<p>And OP: the prep world is slanted toward the east, mainly because they got a big head start over the west coast. And I can think of a few prep schools in California, such as University High or Branson, that probably have a better chance of reaching the top 20 before your school. One problem you have down there is your public school is one of the best in the country, so you’re not getting all the brightest students like University High and Branson get.</p>
<p>also, why did your daughter choose MIT over Stanford?</p>
<p>One of my advisees last year chose NYU over Stanford and Brown. Imagine that.</p>
<p>I have a friend who was accepted to Cornell , she scandalized her family by attending [TESC</a>]( <a href=“http://www.evergreen.edu/]TESC”>http://www.evergreen.edu/) instead!
;)</p>
<p>Pardon me, but does anyone have some Grey Poupon?</p>
<p>I’ll have you all know that I have neither a Volvo nor a bumper sticker. I do, however, have Grey Poupon.</p>
<p>mathmom, I will graciously allow you to consort with me as one of similar natural brilliance. </p>
<p>But wait, what did you get on the verbal section?!? I may have to rethink that… :D</p>
<p>Vicariousparent, we will take your qualifications under consideation for admission to the cadet branch of the family. But we do wish to make certain that you realize that we have far more naturally brilliant applicants than we can possibly accept, so if we are forced to deny you a place, you should not feel that this reflects on you personally.</p>
<p>^ I have Grey Poupon but I prefer store brand yellow mustard. Imagine that.</p>
<p>I do, however, have Grey Poupon.</p>
<p>I like this
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<p>hey sooz, you still advising wannabe actors to go to college? i could see Tish over stanford theater. But not for the program, but for the location! Sending actors to college is like sending carpenters to college or chefs to college, you learn those things at trade schools and on the job! not in an insular and often clubby college theater department:)</p>
<p>Grcxx3, if you can’t face the fact that some prep schools are just better and you think it’s elitist that we point that out, that’s your insecurity problem. Don’t call others elitist for pointing for it. Some of these prep schools are wealthier than LACs, boast 40% admission to Ivies+SM, have incredibly low student/faculty ratios, boast the best facilities, and have a majority of faculty boasting doctorates. Schools like that are CLEARLY BETTER than MOST public schools, there’s no question about that. Maybe not the “right fit” for some as some of you might say, but that’s up to the parents and student to decide.</p>
<p>the northweast is a nice place to visit. But evergreen over cornell that’s what we call in California a mistake!</p>
<p>there’s a great line from a movie where a father says to his daughter he’s sending off at the small town train station “nothing happens here, you gotta go where things happen”</p>
<p>granted cornell has got be one of the colder more isolated universities but the student body is diverse, and from everywhere…things are happening there, like a lot of the NASA design work. the kids going to a state school in Olympia probably all drive to get there, no diversity and little happening in comparison to Cornell. </p>
<p>but what the heck it’s only a person’s life we’re talking about:)</p>
<p>nychomie, I don’t think anyone is arguing whether or not elite prep/boarding schools are better than public schools. In fact, I feel certain they are better than my kids’ rural public school. The issue (and you do not see it) is an ATTITUDE, not facts, that you demonstrate…the attitude is elitist. You also come across as believing the students at such schools are better and that is so not the case.</p>
<p>^Attitude? She discerned what my “attitude” was based on the fact that I said prep schools are better than most public schools and their students are more mature and poised. Both are true. Are you guys honestly contesting the fact that if you compare elite prep school kids and average HS kids, the former is OBVIOUSLY going to be more mature, poised, and intelligent? They ARE better students. If you think pointing out those facts is being elitist, you have an insecurity problem.</p>
<p>I also resent being labeled “elitist” owing to my superior breeding; demonstrable academic, athletic, and career acheivements; good hair; and prodigious jaw line. Haters.</p>
<p>But evergreen over cornell that’s what we call in California a mistake!</p>
<p>I think she wanted to get away from the east.
Younger than me but retired early from Microsoft years ago.
( she is now a consultant)
Among other very successful Evergreen grads that I know, one is a past member of the Cabinet ( Clinton), as well as other local & national executives.</p>
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<p>This is NOT FACT. Prep school kids are not more mature, poised or intelligent than public schools students. There are SOME public school students on par (or higher) in terms of maturity, poise, and intelligence than SOME prep school students. Prep schools do not have a lock on these traits. Prep schools may have a higher concentration of academically strong students due to requiring acceptance to attend. But even if there are a smaller number of students on par in terms of academic excellence at a particular public school, those students can compete in every which way with those at a prep school. </p>
<p>Here’s one for you. My kids went to public school. If I had the money or desire, I could have sent them to an elite prep/boarding school and they likely would have been admitted. They are the same person and who they are no matter which high school they attended. Going to the boarding school would not make them any smarter, any more mature, or more poised. Frankly, my kids are pretty damn smart, mature and poised due to who they are and not which high school we chose to send them to. Are they less smart, poised, or mature because they stayed at the local school even though they COULD have attended an elite boarding school? They are still the same person.</p>