<p>@xiggi: I hear you. I read your post too fast. Completely agree.</p>
<p>Youdontsay, the regret comes later after the smoke disappears. </p>
<p>Just as the multitude of kids (and the parents) who accepted to be interviewed by the media for articles about academic successes or lack of success in the admissions “game.”</p>
<p>I thought she was well prepared for her Today Show interview…likable, poised, articulate. And has now been published in the WSJ and has been inteviewed on the Today Show. I am rather surprised that she really thought she would get into the schools that rejected her with those SAT scores.</p>
<p>missy, I thought she was over-prepared. I think that interview leaves little doubt what she was trying to accomplish. And I’m guessing that she’ll be successful.</p>
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<p>If that is the case, it is even worse as the story becomes pure fiction and fantasy.</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>I am betting she does not give a rodent’s behind what people think. If she did, she would not have gone on national TV to further her cause or keep using more than her 15 minutes of fame. I am betting that xiggi will be unhappy with her for a long time to come. :D</p>
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<p>Yes, that was my first reaction. But then I re-read her article, and she does not actually say that she didn’t do anything in high school. She implies that she didn’t do the right things needed to get into these schools, as well as not having the hooks.</p>
<p>Texas, hence the “come to regret”. I think she might in a few years. I’m sure we all did things at that age that were a bit embarrassing. Ours just wasn’t in a national website.</p>
<p>In the article I posted a few pages back, a Harvard student from the UK expresses her dismay that there is very little intellectual discussion happening at Harvard, unlike at the top British universities. The students are ridiculously busy, sleep-deprived, stressed, and forever driven to achieve the next goal and then the one after that. No doubt this is just one perspective and there are plenty of folks who’d disagree.</p>
<p>But from what I’ve seen in our community, the driven frenzy is a negative side affect of the admissions arms race. In the attempt to win it, many kids have to sacrifice a whole lot of normalcy–sufficient sleep, a fulfilling social life, time for introspection, and so on. The students highlighted in the article sound quite frenzied and unhealthy. My D, who is at an elite university, reports that there are way more “messed up” kids than she would have expected among the “best and brightest.”</p>
<p>I ask again … have y’all watched her interview? As I suspected going in, this was a calculated Hail Mary by a well-connected girl from a savvy family to get the attention of the schools that passed her by in the first round. I think it’s going to work. Or may already have, if the comment Bay references is to be believed.</p>
<p>I’ll make it easy: [Op-ed</a> attacking colleges that rejected her was ‘satire,’ student says - TODAY News](<a href=“http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/04/04/17599221-op-ed-attacking-colleges-that-rejected-her-was-satire-student-says?lite]Op-ed”>http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/04/04/17599221-op-ed-attacking-colleges-that-rejected-her-was-satire-student-says?lite)</p>
<p>I think, whether we like it or not, given the Fischer case at the Supreme Court and the fact that they have decided to take a look at the Michigan case, as well, these issues are a part of the national dialogue on college admissions standards. She wrote a funny piece about it. She is no hero, but she’s not a villain, either.</p>
<p>I think the whole issue is a part of the “growing” pains we are experiencing as more and more of the population applies to and attends college. Let’s face it, the number of people graduating undergrad today is the same percentage of the population graduating high school around the time of world war II. It’s a big shift.</p>
<p>There are conversations being had right now about cost, as well, and financial aid, and in all of these conversations, there is a segment of the middle class who feels a bit shafted.</p>
<p>Imagine if you had to apply to high school in order to get in, and it wasn’t only a small percentage of privates where you had to apply? And then, some were given free school and others had to pay full freight? For an inferior product?</p>
<p>I’m not saying the griping is right or wrong. I’m saying “it is.” And we can expect some more of it, too, I suspect, as we see that these scarce resources are being offered to many people at many different rates and costs and with differing, difficult to quantify standards.</p>
<p>But, Suzy Weiss is just a girl who struck a chord. Right or wrong.</p>
<p>^^ This. Now she is a national celebrity. If she is on any waitlist, let the admissions pour in.</p>
<p>I looked at the comments but did not see any reference to Yale.</p>
<p>Based on her classmate’s post, it does sound like she made her ECs sound non-existent for maximum impact.</p>
<p>From the USAtoday link:</p>
<p>"“I’ve done a ton of volunteer work, and let me tell you, it wasn’t just to get into college,” she said. “But I do think there’s a lot of resume padding going on right now, just to get into these amazing schools.”</p>
<p>Weiss said she has received only positive feedback from her peers, who have told her how much they can relate to her frustration. She also has received offers for jobs and internships."</p>
<p>May be Dina Gachman is retracting her piece and offering her an internship.</p>
<p>First off, if she’s as well connected as some say, she doesn’t need popular approval. Her path may be set. Car, clothes, the year abroad, job through connections. If she truly wasn’t savvy enough to gain some legit experiences thru hs, maybe she’ll be happy to be one of the Housewives. I think her suffering is more perceived than real.</p>
<p>Second, it’s not all about stats.</p>
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<p>I hope people will look at the Center for Equal Opportunity web site before accepting this smear, the kind of thing xiggi specializes in.</p>
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<p>right. Because that is how you do humor. Exaggerate. She exaggerates everything in the piece, including her own shortcomings.</p>
<p>Beliavsky, sending people to the site of a conservative think tank is not going to sway opinion here. And why can’t you answer my question about letting go of your fixation on Asian, white, and male supremacy?</p>
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<p>It looks like the comment about her impending admission to Yale was removed. But there is another one still up, that says something like “Is it wrong of me to hope she fails at Yale?” that was in response to the deleted one.</p>
<p>So given that her article is a fluff piece and no masterpiece at that, if Suzy now gets into one of the top schools that originally passed her over, she will have proved her point. The admissions system is fickle and can be gamed. She is academically the same girl she was before she wrote the article. She is the same person who was waitlisted or denied back in February. If she now gets into Yale or a peer school, she will have shown that sometimes admissions decisions aren’t based on real academic substance and intellectual accomplishment, but rather on celebrity and other superficial qualities that aren’t more than skin deep.</p>
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<p>You know very little about my career, so your post is absurd and dishonest.</p>
<p>That Suzy did have ECs and accomplishments makes her allegation that she was <em>lied to</em> when told to <em>be herself</em> more understandable. She is saying that she didn’t choose to spend time on certain ECs just because they are the ones that will get you into Yale (charities, internships, music, blah blah), she chose the ones she wanted to do. And those choices did not work to get her in.</p>