This is pretty ridiculous

languages1
Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:13:29 +0000

Okay so as I am reading this I wonder of my daughter’s getting into these schools also. I also remember reading somewhere on this cc that there were coaches that parents paid for, and teachers that wrote essays or doctored them up. Kids that parents paid to go to the testing programs to get better sat’s. My daughter is a latino and she was in the ELC context at her school. Her math score on her sat killed her. 580 and 590 taken 2 times. She had a total 1990 combined sat, but her school is not strong in mathematics and she currently holds an A in her calculas class. I think and would hope that maybe the holistic approach would have leveled out the playing field. There are a lot of California Kids that can not afford the luxury of having private admission coaches and go to special kaplan courses. Our EFC was 0 so I know that we are in a low backet of income for example. I think my daughter is going to do excellent at Berkeley or UCLA. She got in to both and we still do not believe it. I thought her essays were okay but they were written by her and not even doctored by anyone. I beleive she was very empassioned though.
Remember that when these people post their stats and say okay on essays who are we to judge. Maybe they are really compassionate about themself or what they are talking about. Also, how do you know what school they went to and how hard it is to get those grades. Maybe he tried to weight his courses and that is his gpa with ap classes with b’s and a c. Maybe one class went sour for him. Just because he is from a different race or ethnic background should not preclude that he can not do just as well. I think the admission officers put alot of time into decisions. I think they are trying to give some of these kids that work hard a break also. He got in cause he deserved to get in just like my daughter deserved to get in. I think you guys need to take 2 steps back and not have sour grapes on this. Again some of these kids do not have the advantages that some of you guys have. They live in a world that is quite different than yours. So give this guy and people like him–such as my daughter a break. My daughter wants to be a doctor and has done ecs in hospitals and logged over 300 hours of service work in 2.5 years at this. Maybe they saw that and realized that she is a well rounded person.