<p>Fwiw, low ses kids can get rejected like everyone else.</p>
<p>Also, a kid living in poverty still must prove he or she can thrive (or at least survive) in an elite school…</p>
<p>Low SES kids are the most underrepresented group at the elite schools. This is why the elites give financial aid to the middle class. Then they can say, ___% of students receive aid. It’s a game.</p>
<p>There are a few tip-offs that tell me this is not her work. The voice is not one of a high school senior. (HS kids don’t watch Real Housewives… Kardashians maybe) It is also written with certain racist dog-whistle terms that a 17yo just doesn’t have the life experience to know. Much was made by Elizabeth Warren donning a headdress, the right wing political machine was all over this. Referring to a African suffering child as “Kintu” is awfully close to the name the main character of a transformative miniseries of the 70’s. Moreover a student who has a 4.7 GPA from a competitive should know a sentence requires a subject and a verb. Terrible technically, my 6th grader has better structure. This is just another example of entitled brats and their controlling, racist parents making excuses for the first time someone said “no” to them. Pull the race card instead of accepting defeat. I have more confidence than ever in the admissions process, she didn’t fool the best and the brightest. She didn’t fool me either, nor did her parents.</p>
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<p>The terrific thing is, you can always send your children to state universities and they’ll do just fine, if you don’t care for the admissions processes of private ones.</p>
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<p>In many ways, Beliavsky is the embodiment of a certain stereotype - one who sees math / science (and particularly EE/CS) as the most important, thinks that intellectual smarts are the only kinds of smarts, prides himself on getting the largest starting salary right out of college compared to those fuzzy-wuzzy liberal arts folks - and yet rises only slightly within the organization, never really makes any kind of meaningful managerial or directional position within a broader organization because of inability to read people beyond their SAT scores, and “can’t understand” why all the liberal arts folks seem to have leapfrogged him in life.</p>
<p>Look, Bel, in China and in India, college admissions is largely the meritocracy you dream of - scores, scores, scores uber alles. Have you ever wondered why it is that there aren’t swarms of Americans trying to get into those colleges, yet there are swarms of Chinese and Indian nationals (and nationals from all over) who are making concerted efforts, often at great personal / family sacrifice, to try to enter our universities? Could it be that our system produces a system that people WANT to join, and the Chinese / Indian system produces a system that isn’t appealing to the outside? What does that say about how each system creates its “stew” of talent?</p>
<p>Look, Caltech is the closest thing you’ll find in the US to scores uber alles. (Note I said closest thing, not exact thing.) So send your kids there. Don’t bother with any other elite schools. It’s not like you have to, to succeed in life.</p>
<p>[Suzy</a> Lee Weiss and the Age of Entitlement - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/dinagachman/2013/04/03/suzy-lee-weiss-and-the-age-of-entitlement/]Suzy”>Suzy Lee Weiss and the Age of Entitlement)</p>
<p>I like cobrat’s idea of dressing like a Hun for the interview. Edgy creativity can be a great thing. Tho risky. Think of the minds you could bend, if you hit the “what should I wear” threads.</p>
<p>Suzy’s getting her 15 minutes of fame. The burden is now on her to prove out. Or not.</p>
<p>I think Dina Gachman is whining about entitlement mentality and her interns not bringing her coffee but that might be just me.</p>
<p>Irrespective of what people’s opinions are about Suzy’s article, she has upset the applecart and she will be around a long time writing things that will annoy a big segment of the population starting in about 4 years.</p>
<p>She might, perhaps, try her hand at satire, or whatever people call bad humor those days. </p>
<p>As far as Little Suzy (interestingly appropriate as it is the perfect underachieving BWRK nickname) if she indeed heads for Ann Arbor, she should be able to team up with Roger Clegg, Linda Chavez and the rest of the reprobates at the CEO progressive movement.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that Ms. Weiss is factually correct in her assessment, that the chances of being admitted to an elite (Ivy) college are almost nil, if you don’t fall into a defined applicant pool. If you subtract out the internationals, athletes, URMs, low-income, legacies, development cases - the numbers of which remain relatively static each year at these schools, and you don’t play an instrument, live in an underrepresented state, win a national- or international-level competition (or equivalent), score 2400 or have an unusual family life, you are just not going to get in, no matter how hard you work. The “lie” is that you do have a reasonable shot, without any of those qualifications.</p>
<p>Regarding Real Housewives: all three of my kids watched that show in high school.</p>
<p>@xiggi: Somehow I don’t think that will happen. She seems to be the product of a less-than-progressive environment.</p>
<p>Chances of being admitted to an Ivy even if you fall into a defined applicant pool are almost nil.</p>
<p>Everyone knows you have to be a star not just academically but also musically/talent/athletics. No one tells the average/one dimensional student they have a shot. It’s like saying a good college player should be allowed on the Yankees. You have to be awesome. If you are average, pick another school. You will get a fine education.</p>
<p>I highly doubt Suzy Lee did nothing throughout high school but watch TV. I am sure she has a decent resume–just not one that’s stellar enough for elite admission. She made a joke at her own expense about watching a stupid show, and people are taking it as literally as the rest of her piece, which wasn’t supposed to be taken literally either. </p>
<p>I’m not saying she deserved to get in a top school. It appears not, given those SAT scores. She is whining that being an ordinary smart kid is not good enough and she’s right about that. I agree that it’s unlikely anyone ever told her it would be enough. She just wants it to have been good enough. That’s the entitled attitude talking.</p>
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<p>Wanna bet that she will join the other teenagers who have come to regret to share part of the life in a media outlet? All those decisions that appear to so smart at the time tend to take a different tack when the audience grows large than the small circle of misguided adults around you. After the first exhilarating results of the 15 seconds of fame, comes the scrutiny. And the words on the web never vanish. </p>
<p>Wanna bet that she will come to regret to be recognized as that whining little white kid from Thee Rivers who attempted to write a humorous piece and used her connections grab the national attention. </p>
<p>At best, people might forgive her youthful exuberance. Not everyone will be so charitable. Especially in a world that takes no Un-PC prisoners. But then again, the Onion might be calling.</p>
<p>she is the product of a “bleeding heart conservative” her is her father’s bio. Oh, and btw, he had his house featured in the WSJ Real Estate Luxury section…now he has his article, I mean his daughter’s featured.
[Weiss</a> Lines - Bios](<a href=“http://www.weisslines.com/bios.htm]Weiss”>Weiss Lines - Bios)</p>
<p>xiggi, did you watch her on the Today show? I don’t think she’ll have any regrets. She knows just what she’s doing.</p>
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<p>I really have to abandon adding tongue-in-cheek comments. The progressive qualifier for the CEO group was a joke. In a thread about misplaced humor, I should have known better. The CEO group comes as close as white supremacists as legally possible under a thin layer of an intellectual veneer.</p>
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<p>Fair enough.</p>
<p>If you read the comments under the Gachman piece, someone describes Suzy’s high school career, and it was not just average. If it is to be believed, she was a stellar student, and involved in many things (just not the things that matter for the schools she wanted, apparently). Another post states that she will now be going to Yale.</p>