<p>I agree with all of you, but it’s hard being the sister who gets locked out of the bedroom by her sister, money stolen by her sister, laptop hacked by her sister, beaten up by sister, etc. She rules the house and her fire is fueled by our dad. If she wants something, she’ll make sure she gets her way.</p>
<p>She is a self-proclaimed racist. Is that immoral? This is the 21st century. How can racism be justified in this context? Can it even be understood?</p>
<p>I’ll try to stay out of it as much as I can, but my controlling personality makes this difficult. I cannot know what’s best for everyone, duh.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I’m one of the few people she knows who’s gone to college. I feel like I should have some right in guiding her. She has no clue what liberal arts is.</p>
<p>It sounds like she has decided she doesn’t want your advice (perhaps understandably as you continue to pressure her to change her mind). Why are you still fighting with her over this? You have no dog in this fight.</p>
<p>I’m fighting with her because it bothers me. Yeah, I know I won’t “win.” We’re both control freaks and we’re both stubborn.</p>
<p>Okay, no more politics. I don’t know if she will last in engineering. Frankly, and not to be mean, but my sister is not ambitious. From what I’ve read, intro engineering courses at unis are meant to weed out weaker students. A cousin of mine wanted to go into biomedical engineering and quit that after the 1st semester because it was too hard, and this wasn’t even at a top school. What if she didn’t last? I don’t mean to doubt her abilities, but she literally watches TV all of the time.</p>
<p>I’ve been reading about 3/2 programs, and according to WUSTL and Columbia engineering faculty, they prefer 3/2 students. This was based on one article I read, so bear with me. I would suggest the CTCL to my sister because of her weaker profile, regardless of her political affiliation. I’m biased, of course, but if they’re schools that she has a shot at…</p>
<p>And I’m not suggesting that a 3/2 route would be any easier. I’m sure it isn’t.</p>
<p>If she can do well and watch a lot of TV, why do you care? I watch probably 4 hours on a school night and have maintained a 4.5 weighted GPA. The two are not mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>It may feel like I am defending her a lot, but I am doing that because I can relate to her situation.</p>
<p>Anyway, I keep reading these posts that her scores are so horrible, so bad, really???, 21 ACT is AVERAGE. </p>
<p>Boy, I will have to admit that urban dictionary is sometimes right about this site,…" A place to go where you can read about snotty geniuses who feel the need to brag in the ultimate attempt to make the “average high school student” feel pity on the themselves. " Read the rest yourself but I imagine this post will be gone in a few hours…</p>
<p>There are many colleges that educate many successful individuals who would gladly accept an average student who seems to have good academics. Look for a school where success in class-work and taking the most challenging load she can deal with well is more important than test scores. Tell her to head to a big school apply undecided and start taking per-requisites in math for the engineering program if that’s what she truly wants, that is the only tell-tale proof of success at any school. </p>
<p>Most any student who gets a degree in engineering anywhere can find a job after and be a success, you DO NOT NEED to attend even a good one actually ( unless you want to work at NASA or General electric maybe, but not everyone does…</p>
<p>How about Ole Miss, Mississippi State, University of Memphis ( That’s where I live) I work at a fortune 100 company here and you can’t throw a stick without hitting a grad from one of these schools and I have been impressed with their abilities ( yes engineers!!!)</p>
<p>And in college your sister will meet other more educated conservatives who are more understanding and actually live their christian beliefs about race and love… it will be hard NOT to change even at the University of Mississippi where integration there happened at the start of the civil rights movement.</p>
<p>Op, in this case you should not be your sister’s keeper. Many siblings don’t get along - your case seems extreme. Someone may be able to guide your sister, but that will not be you. She may be harboring jealousy or other bad feelings toward you from childhood, which is coming out in extreme political statements. Or maybe she craves confrontation and conflict. Who knows? But your involvement and interest in her choice of college will only feed into this mess. Avoid her and hope she matures into someone you can relate to.</p>
<p>OP, I have a younger brother who does everything “wrong”, and I think I have some advice for you. He’s not AWFUL, but he has really poor social timing and he’s just rude, he offends a lot of the friends I bring over unintentionally and then tries to be the center of the conversation no matter what the occasion. One day I snapped at him, and my dad said “Don’t try and make it happen. It’ll happen when it needs to.” </p>
<p>Your sister won’t be able to find an all white school. She’ll probably be very abrasive in college and have to deal with different types of people than she’s used to. It will be a wakeup call. When she has to go to college with other races, she’ll face that moment herself. You trying to bring her to these conclusions is doing more harm than good. She’ll have to either change or be a very hateful person who may not have very many friends in college.</p>
<p>Your sister may be pulling your chain since it can be easily pulled. Or she could just be rebelling. Let it go. </p>
<p>In 5-10 years you both may be somewhere closer to the middle once you’re out in the real world and reality has smacked you both in the face (and I say that lovingly )</p>
<p>One possible alternative for your sister, who really does sound like she could use some discipline in her life, could be a quick stint in the military. She’d get a good deal of money for college, certainly wouldn’t be watching TV all day, and would be forced to deal with people of all races, as the military may be one of the least racist organizations on the planet. Not to mention it’s full of guns and trucks, which she loves.</p>
<p>Absolutist? No, ha ha. You may not be able to tell by this thread or by any of the threads that I’ve posted on, but I’m one of those crazy relativists who thinks that truth doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>What we define as right and wrong are just social constructions, so inherently nothing can be right or wrong. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t have opinions.</p>
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