<p>Even though I’m applying to a few schools in the ivy league, I find it quite fun to attack all universities (but especially those in the Ivy League because they’re easy targets) for what I see as their unfair admissions practicies. a far-left agenda, and arrogance. I like to say, “I want to go to Columbia, even though they’re communist racists” and call Harvard, “The Kremlin on the Charles” as Spiro Agnew said. </p>
<p>I recently wrote an article for my school newspaper in which I basically attacked and derided a good number of schools, either specifically or in a more general sarcastic way, including some of the schools I’m applying to. </p>
<p>Now, I think there’s so many things to be disgusted by about modern day higher academia, whether its the prominence of socialist youth organizations (at least at Columbia!) or the fact that many colleges believe that the differences between races are more than skin-deep (in great opposition to Martin Luther King might I say), but at the same time I love universities and the whole of higher academia in general. I think it’s utterly fascinating, and I’d be really excited to go to one of these colleges I talk trash about all the time.</p>
<p>However, do you think if an admissions officer at a school I was applying to knew that on a regular basis I harshly criticize them and accuse them of engaging in and tolerating morally reprehensible actions, especially Columbia, which is a beautiful school and my first choice and also one of the most ridiculous places in the country, that they would be indifferent or maybe they’d take offense? </p>
<p>So far, I’m thinking for any interviews that I’ll keep these opinions to myself.</p>
<p>it’s kind of funny that you think any college would care enough about your opinions to read your school newspaper article… the only way they would see it is if you sent it in with your app. I think your good.</p>
<p>Um, is “duh” a good enough answer for you? You want them to think you’re too good for them even though you really want to go there…so they’ll assume you’re great because you’re acting like you don’t care? Yeah right, they’ll just assume you don’t want to go there and toss your application on the reject pile. </p>
<p>Did you even need to ask if they would take offense? What do you think they’ll think?</p>
<p>Your school newspaper committee allowed you to publish such comments as “they are a bunch of communist racists”? I believe that is called libel?</p>
<p>Honestly, do you really think they’re going to go look for your school newspaper and see what you’ve commented?
You’re probably going to be fine—the only thing you might want to reconsider is your blanketing opinions about schools you haven’t been to… and your motivations to go to these schools in the first place…</p>
<p>The real question is if you clearly have such extremely negative opinions of these schools, why do you want to go to them? And I agree that it is highly doubtful that they will read your school newspaper.</p>
<p>so wait, you ridicule and attack the Ivies in your writing, yet you are applying/ and want to go there? Is that not not a tad bit hypocritical? I find it hard to believe you really want to go when all your articles focus on their negatives. Why not let your actions mirror your writing?</p>
<p>The reason everyone thinks you’re a hypocrite is because at no point do you say why you want to go to these colleges you profess to hate. You say you like universities, but that’s no answer. Bob Jones University is a university, and it sounds like a good fit for you. Why aren’t you applying there? Don’t all the great minds of academia teach there? If you think “no,” then why not? Why don’t the world’s greatest thinkers teach at places like that?</p>
<p>I actually don’t think he’s being hypocritical. For example, I believe this is by far the best country in the world, but i also believe we elected worst president in history (GWB) over the past eight years. You can admire an institution while still noting its faults. In fact, many conservative groups at Ivies routinely criticize what they see as misteps by the adminstration. This doesn’t mean they aren’t proud to attend the university or grateful for the education they receive.</p>
<p>But I don’t really understand the notion that the Ivy League is racist. If anything, they’re overtly liberal faculty is the paragon of political correctness. I get the socialist take though.</p>
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<p>This also couldn’t be farther from the truth. Ideas like this are considered incredibly taboo at elite universities. Larry Summers was fired from Harvard over similar comments regarding genetic difference amongst men and women in scientific ability. Every single professor I ever had (I went to Cornell) denied the biological existence of race and one even tried to convince us that GENDER was a socially constructed and pliable idea.</p>
<p>Publishing valid criticisms about colleges likely has no real impact. Publishing criticisms like they are “communist racists” reflects an ignorance of the applicant that may be taken into account. As Mark Twain said it is better to keep silent and have people suspect you are ignorant than to speak and remove all doubt.</p>
<p>That is funny. It sounds like those revolutionaries, who denounce capitalism and buy Che Guevara souvenirs, until they become riches themselves.</p>
<p>Oh…I forget those preachers who condemn the sinners until they commit adulteries like Jim Baker. :)</p>
<p>In reality, I don’t think anyone read school newspapers anyway. You will be fine.</p>
<p>If you’d like to publish them, go ahead; somehow, I doubt the admissions department will be compelled to read through your school’s newspaper while they have thousands of other applicants’ applications to look through.</p>
<p>How can a good, true American conservative like yourself even dare to consider going to any of those hippie liberal scum universities? I hope you realize that if you attend any college in the northeast, you will have at least a contact high for four straight years. I think there are some good universities in Uzbekistan I could recommend for you.</p>
<p>I second 4th House’s idea of rethinking where you want to attend college. Bob Jones University, Wheaton College, Oral Roberts, etc. are schools you need to consider if you want to experience an extremely conservative education. There’s no sense in going to a school where you completely reject the ideas and professors of a liberal education.</p>