<p>This was posted on the UChicago forum and I thought it might be of interest to parents in general:</p>
<p>Not a lot of information in there. The guy sure looks collegiate though, doesn’t he?</p>
<p>I enjoyed this - thanks idad. I’m a bit wistful D is not going to U Chicago. Such a fantastic school . . .</p>
<p>Sorry, off topic, but I just noticed that CC doesn’t censor words like “wistful” anymore. Finally!</p>
<p>I love that word.</p>
<p>Interesting to note his comment about manipulating test results by preparation.</p>
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<p>There was a thread a few days ago where that happened to an unoffensive word containing the banned letters and Roger Dooley came on and saw the discussion about it - he must have fixed it.</p>
<p>Testing:
How about the word that means full of rest, restful?</p>
<p>That is now fine, too.</p>
<p>What a concept "test results … tend to be in line with family income and education levels "! Not according to No Child Left Behind. I thought we were supposed to blame the teacher and fail the school.</p>
<p>manipulated test results by preparation–</p>
<p>Poor kids–they just can’t win. If you take the test two times and do better on the second one, you’re assumed to have" manipulated" test results by preparation.</p>
<p>Haha! My kids “manipulate” their test results in classes all the time by preparing! Next we’ll be suspicious of a high GPA.</p>
<p>Good one, geomom! Seriously, when did preparation become such a dirty word?</p>
<p>It’s the same arrogance that I’ve seen with mortgage brokers, bankers, tech stock analysts, homebuilders and others that have a sellers’ market.</p>
<p>my favorite quote from the article
So true.</p>
<p>Hey, at least we don’t set up websites…</p>
<p>^^maybe **you **don’t.</p>
<p>kidding ;)</p>
<p>Maybe we should start a new thread–starting website for my kid, any suggestions? That would smoke 'em out!</p>
<p>Actually, I’m not sure what he’s referring to with the “parents marketing the kid” remark. What is he talking about? Do parents call him up? Contact him directly? Weird.</p>
<p>I assume “parents marketing the kid” means hired guns to help with the application process, summer programs at elite universities, extensive test prep programs …</p>
<p>I would bet that given the range of “temporarily insane” parents there are indeed some who call or write as well as hire others to package their kid’s application. Being an admissions dean must be interesting work.</p>