Scared of junior year here at brown

IxnayBob
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:36:56 +0000

@renaissancemom, thank you for that. I will show it to my son who begins at Yale next year (in spite of having made course selections in high school that dinged his GPA slightly, but obviously not fatally). He tends to do the right thing naturally, but reinforcing his choices is not a bad plan.

@lostaccount, I agree with what you say, but I don’t think we should leave out the effects of recruited athletes and other hooks. It strikes me that the only sensible hook is lower SES, in that those applicants have shown great character and fortitude. I can’t count how many kids I know who would be at a directional college rather than the top tier they were accepted to if not for their athletic ability (often aided by the kind of private lessons available only to the wealthy). I am reminded of my older daughter’s roommate who asked her, in the middle of her semester taking Astronomy at a top 25 school, to remind her if the sun went around the Earth or v.v. – she was an athlete.