<p>JHS calm down it is for fun. It is what asian perceive. And this may not be true at all. If you look this thread there are many claims which are not true either. So take a back seat and laugh. Do not take it too seriously.</p>
<p>JHS I suggest you actually read the threads, much worse things have been said.</p>
<p>Though I agree I have not seen this stated here, it is implied from time-to-time in links found here, as in the recent NYT article on super applicants or some such thing.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to derail this thread but just wanted to point out to JHS that stockmarket’s contribution had an element of truth. </p>
<p>“One Korean student, applying from a top prep school, got pegged at MIT as “yet another textureless math grind.” At Vanderbilt, a former admissions staffer offered that Asians “are very good students, but don’t provide the kind of intellectual environment” that colleges are looking for.”</p>
<p>"Harvard evaluators “ranked Asian American candidates on average below whites in ‘personal qualities,’” and repeatedly described them as “‘quiet/shy, science/math oriented, and hard workers.’”</p>
<p>Anyway, to go back to the actual thread</p>
<p>After a week on CC, you are certain that anyone who even mentions applying to Harvard is a prestige freak</p>
<p>Some number: Asians are discriminated against to a huge extent in the college admissions process, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a complete fool.</p>
<p>Some number +1: Asians are not discriminated against at all in the college admissions process, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a complete fool.</p>
<p>Some number +2: The U.S. News rankings provide valuable perspective on the relative quality of various colleges and universities. Anyone who would select a school with a poorer U.S. News ranking over one with a better U.S. News ranking is making a terrible decision.</p>
<p>Some number +3: The U.S. News rankings are meaningless drivel that exists only to sell magazines. Anyone who takes them into account in selecting a college or university is making a terrible decision.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Big lecture classes are a total waste of time. It’s impossible to learn anything in a class of 200 or more. Your child is doomed to ignorance if he’s not in a class of 20 students or less.</p></li>
<li><p>Teenage boys adore small seminar-style classes where they can listen to Chatty Cathy’s from the suburbs expound their version of how to save the universe.</p></li>
<li><p>Asian and Jewish students are pushed into pursuing higher education because their parents want them to control the world. They don’t actually have an ancient culture which values education as a means unto itself.</p></li>
<li><p>Just because half of your peer group are National Merit Scholars with 4.0 GPAs doesn’t mean your scattergram bar is higher than Podunk High School’s scattergram bar.</p></li>
<li><p>Your son’s Verizon cell phone does not get the reception that the Verizon network offers. That’s why he doesn’t answer the phone when he sees your number.</p></li>
<li><p>Of course he misses you as much as you miss him.</p></li>
<li><p>If your suppposedly bright son fills in two different social security numbers on his SAT tests, the College Board will be able to get that sorted without nine phone calls.</p></li>
<li><p>20+ years of marriage is a box of fluffy ducks.</p></li>
<li><p>Condoms are an effective means of birth control.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>what # are we up to again: Marmots are your friends and are the answer to every admission and financial aid situation.</p>
<p>what # are we up to again +1: a sure fire way to keep rejection letters from coming to your home is to have marmots set up camp around your mailbox.</p>
<p>what # are we up to again +2: IF you need more financial aid from your school, gind your self a bunch of marmots and let them loose in the FA office</p>
<p>Wait, it’s not true about the marmots? I had better get back to work then…</p>
<p>Guys dig girls. Girls dig guys. It doesn’t matter what the race is. </p>
<p>WUSTL is sooooooooooooooo OVERRATED, due to its manipulation of USNEWS rankings by waitlisting overqualified applicants. </p>
<p>So is Tufts. </p>
<p>It was my dream to go Harvard, but this year I changed it to Princeton. </p>
<p>If you live in California, you need to go to Berkely or you are a wasting money. </p>
<p>If you live in any other state, you need to go to a private school, because youre state school is the equivalent of a public high school. </p>
<p>If you are an Asain Male in New Jersey at a public high school, you screwed yourself in “diversity”. </p>
<p>An Allumni interview can make or break your application. </p>
<p>Anyone who submitts an ACT score only, obviously screwed the SAT up. </p>
<p>School that require SATIIs are better than schools that don’t. </p>
<p>Any college outside the United States is not a “top university”.</p>
<p>Million and one: Passion is where it’s at in admissions.
Million and two: Being lop-sided is where it’s at in admissions.
Million and three: If you fill out your FAFSA at 12:01 a.m. on January 1st, you will get more grants in your FA package than if you wait until February 1st (gasp) and fill out your FAFSA after you receive your W-2 forms.
Million and four: Kids going to private schools will all graduate in 4-years of less, thus saving thousands of dollars. Conversely, kids going to public U’s will all take 6 or more years to graduate, thus costing lots more money in opportunity costs (lost wages) and parental costs (tuition, bar tabs, room and board and more.)
- College essays become easier to write by consuming vast quantities of starburst, red licorice and hot tamales.</p>
<ol>
<li> If you play college sports, your time is your own. Your coach doesn’t control your life.</li>
</ol>
<p>a- Unless you’re an investment banker, your job, even at Goldman Sachs, is “back office”.</p>
<p>b- You must have a 3.8 or above at HYPSM to get a “front office” position. Or be an ivy league football player.</p>
<p>c- Yes I’ve heard i-bankers work 80 hours a week. That’s OK, I can handle it. I plan on retiring when I’m 35 anyway.</p>
<p>d- If you live in NJ and apply to lotsa colleges, your last choice (safety) school is always Rutgers.</p>
<p>Did someone say this one:</p>
<p>If you apply to ALL of the Ivy League schools, your chances of acceptance into one of them increases.</p>
<p>I thought it was:</p>
<p>If you apply to ALL the Ivy League schools, they see you applied to all of them and they all will reject you because they know you are a prestige whore. Except Cornell because they are the safety Ivy.</p>
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Another serious understatement ;). </p>
<p>Thoughts of jobs/careers/earnings are crass and beneath you. They have no place at all in planning for your higher education, unless you suffer from seriously perverted priorities and believe that money is everything. Those students who are focused on careers pollute the atmosphere at universities they attend, dragging down the experience for those present for the pure joy of learning.</p>
<p>THere are really only three Ivys that count- HP and Y. The others are quite second tier.</p>
<p>If you can’t get into Wharton, Penn isn’t worth applying to.</p>
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<p>46a. But it can all be for naught if you used the wrong font on your application essay or resume. Your chances of admission will also increase with the use of superior quality paper stock for your submittal.</p>
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Merit aid is morally repugnant, as it robs from the truly deserving whose EFC/CSS Profile figures are lower than yours.</p>
<p>And another one…if your freshman HS GPA is 1.5, but you have an “upward trend”, you will certainly get accepted at a top 25 school.</p>
<p>When a school drops from USN&WR rank #13 to rank #16, it is the beginning of the end. No self-respecting students will apply. Faculty will question their affiliation with such a downward-trajectory school. Fair warning!</p>