@JustOneDad I don’t understand why everyone is COMPLETELY missing the point of what I said. Yes, I do know what capital/ism is, and I think that with college admissions, it is a huge problem.
Waffle. Can you restate your issue then? I may have simply read your posts too quickly. Thnx
@TheAtlantic I didn’t mean to… Not against AA. I just did a very bad job expressing my thoughts. Pretend my first post doesn’t exist. It is very insulting to the hard working URMs.and for that I apologíze.
My point is that if colleges have such large amounts of money, there should be no financial reason for someone to not be able to attend a school. Unfortunately, that would never happen because such is capitalism…
College apps bother me the most because I am an analytically based person, so I’ve relied on making decisions based on statistics and facts my whole life. But now for my reach schools if I were admitted then I would be in the bottom quartile, so I have to not rely on statistics in terms of getting accepted, but I have to rely on all the other factors. Irony 
@TheWaffleMan149
Public and Non-Profit colleges have a limited amount of money, a great deal of it goes to insure quality education to its present students. They hand out scholarships to the needy due to qualification and diversity. If less people paid tuition the quality of the University would go down as well. Why does this upset you? I’m very grateful the system is this way.
Because it costs some people 70k a year at some institutions
OK. Very few schools are very wealthy – you clearly don’t seem to understand this. They can be counted on the hand of an accident victim. HYPS. Does that mean it should also make it tuition free for those who clearly can afford it?
They decide to make generous policies – and people see if they qualify. Are you saying a family earning $1M a year shouldn’t pay full freight?
And the last time I checked, I saw no one holding guns to the heads of families who choose to write $70K checks for their kids to go to those schools. Do you know cheaper options? I do. I bet those families do as well.
Your understanding of capitalism is rather fairy-tale-esque. You’re very passionate about income equality issues it seems. Bravo – we need more examination on issues like that. But please argue facts. You only hurt yourself and your cause when your foundational arguments are shoddy and emotional. You won’t convince anyone.
Or perhaps you’re arguing the other side – saying that wealthy families should get as much assistance as needy ones. Well – that’s absurd on its face.
By choice, about 50% - 75 % ot the kids I interview for my alma mater are minorities or females going into science and math. They earn their acceptance not because of their “hook” status and/or major but because they are hard working, dedicated, know the value of education and are willing to work very hard for it, and are just darn smart!!! I am tired of people thinking those groups get special treatment. From my observation, they have earned it!
Two homeless kids that I interviewed got into Penn and MIT. They studied in the library til 9PM. They endured much hardship. It was an honor and a privilege to interview them. They were 2 of the most outstanding/memorable kids I have ever interviewed (17 years of interviewing abt. 400 kids). They did not get a break - they did not steal someone else’s seat, they earned it!
One Vietnamese/American female I interviewed got into 7 Ivies - waitlisted at Cornell. She also got in to MIT, CalTech, and Stanford. Why? She had so many awards in math that I could barely count them (In other words more than 2 hands.) She was one of the smartest kids I have ever interviewed. So her hook was her talent not her ethnicity.
I see such bitterness sometimes from kids about the minorities’ hook. Just not worth the ill will. So kids, work hard and good luck to you. But stop, please stop, thinking minorities only get accepted because of their color, race, etc. That they are stealing your seat. They get accepted because they have credentials.
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THIS!
Amanivy’s post should be more than enough to stop others whining about AA
Some colleges don’t post decision dates and will end up pressuring the students in that expected week. It is very wearing on the nerve, especially for teenagers who are not accustomed to this type of stress.
Best line of this thread.
@Hamlin I emailed the admission office during the summer and they did reply with approximate open and closing dates. You can alwasy ask the admission in advance
@Hamlin - Are you really the Pied Piper, seeking to lead this thread astray?
@BigB0ss - then why not just send in the AP score if the material is similar? Also your point doesn’t apply for kids taking A levels, which are more rigorous than AP exams, but teach different material.
I hate it that a teacher will nag you for procrastinating over not submitting an assignment EARLY but will then proceed to wait until the very last second to even begin a common app recommendation…
So much truth ^^^^ @cowtownbrown
It makes me crazy that on every tour a smug admissions officer would scold students to check for typos and make sure not use the wrong college name in their essay.
In the meantime they send un-proofread emails and recently an Ivy League school sent my kid an email addressed to another child.
Somehow they are allowed to make mistakes, but a high school senior isn’t?
But, a college application is much more important than an email…
(Implying the email isn’t of anything too major such as a response to a query or asking them to visit etc and not a decision)
You have months to perfect an application while they need to respond to hundreds of questions, surely you can see that.
It wasn’t a personal email it was their professional marketing.